#Downloadable geektool mac#

I thought about patching the various scripts. Ultimately, the problem was due to a query change instituted by Yahoo! in its public API for retrieving weather conditions and forecasts. I searched around for answers, which led me to various theories (see here and here) as to why the scripts no longer worked. Over the years, problems arose with the current weather image icon script that required various workarounds, such as switching to the French Yahoo! weather site for images.Ī few months ago, all three weather scripts stopped working. I also used two additional scripts from other sources for displaying a current weather image icon obtained from Yahoo! and another that displayed a five-day weather forecast. A few years ago after browsing on the Internet for various weather geeklets and scripts, I settled on one created by Thomas Upton written in Python that used Yahoo! weather for displaying current conditions, called weather.py: One of my favorite displays is current weather information.

#Downloadable geektool mac#

I’m a long-time GeekTool user, which I use to display various pieces of information on my Mac desktop. Version 1.1 incorporating these fixes can be found here. I also implemented a workaround of a Yahoo! weather bug in which the sunset time string drops the leading zero for the minutes in some locations. Update (May 7, 2016): Many thanks to kind reader who asked about the metric option to display temperature in Celsius. Version 2.0 incorporating OAuth1 and switching to JSON for retrieval can be found here. 3, 2019, the and for Yahoo Weather API are retired. Update (March 18, 2019): As of Thursday, Jan.