i3blocks openweathermap

i3blocks_openweathermap.md

openweathermap for i3blocks

dependencies

• i3blocks
• httpie
• jq
• ttf-font-icons (aur)

configuration

[weather]
interval=3600
instance=beijing
command=path/to/weather.sh

weather.sh

#!/bin/bash
# Copyright (C) 2016 Ning Sun <sunng@about.me>

# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.

# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.

# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

CITY=$BLOCK_INSTANCE
APPID="...your appkey..."

OUTPUT=$(http get http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather\?APPID\=${APPID}\&q\=${CITY}\&units\=metric)

#echo $APPID
#echo $OUTPUT

TEMP=$(echo $OUTPUT | jq -r ".main.temp")
WEATHER=$(echo $OUTPUT | jq -r ".weather[0].main")
case $WEATHER in
    "Clear"*)
        WEATHER=
        ;;
    "Rain"*)
        WEATHER=
        ;;
    "Snow"*)
        WEATHER=
        ;;
    "Thunderstorm"*)
        WEATHER=
        ;;
esac

echo "$WEATHER $TEMP°C"
echo "$TEMP°C"

I can't for the life of me get this script to work. When I run it from the command line, it works perfectly fine. But when run from i3blocks, I get nothing from the api

For some reason, even after a reboot my i3blocks wasn't liking httpie. Switching to curl worked ¯\(ツ)/¯