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Current Weather in PS Profile
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Function Get-CurrentWeather { | |
#Save this function inside your Powershell Profile. Not sure what that is? Just type in $profile and hit enter in your PS Console! | |
#File doesn't exist? That's OK, use Powershell to create it! | |
#New-Item -File -Path $env:USERPROFILE\Documents\WindowsPowershell\ -Value $profile | |
#Give your script a voice! | |
Add-Type -assemblyname System.Speech | |
$speech = New-Object System.Speech.Synthesis.SpeechSynthesizer | |
# The devil's in the details. You'll need an API key and to know your CityID, though Zip code will work with a modified URL. | |
$key = "YourAPIKeyHere" #API Key's are free from openweathermap.org | |
#Pulled from the master city ID json file. Download here: http://bulk.openweathermap.org/sample/city.list.json.gz | |
$cityid = "YourHomeTown" | |
$weather = Invoke-RestMethod -Uri "http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?id=$cityid&APPID=$key&units=imperial" | |
#You can comment out the next 2 lines if you don't want your prompt to talk to you. | |
$speech.Speak("Today's high will be $($weather.main.temp_max) degrees Fahrenheit. The Low, $($weather.main.temp_min) degrees Fahrenheit.") | |
$speech.Speak("It is currently $($weather.main.temp) degrees Fahrenheit") | |
Write-Host "Today's High: $($weather.main.temp_max) °F" | |
Write-Host "Today's Low: $($weather.main.temp_min) °F" | |
Write-Host "Current Temperature: $($weather.main.temp) °F" | |
} |
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