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This is a web frontend for a console weather application wego, using it as a backend. wttr.in — the right way to check the weather.
wttr.in is a console oriented weather forecast service, that supports various information representation
like terminal oriented ANSI-sequences for the console HTTP clients such as curl, httpie or wget;
HTML for web browsers; or PNG for graphical viewers.
wttr.in uses [wego](http://github.com/schachmat/wego) to visualize weather forecast information
and various weather data sources.
You can check it at [wttr.in](http://wttr.in). You can check it at [wttr.in](http://wttr.in).
## Usage ## Usage
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That is how the actual weather report for your location looks like (it is live!): That is how the actual weather report for your location looks like (it is live!):
![Weather Report](http://wttr.in/MyLocation.png) ![Weather Report](http://wttr.in/MyLocation.png?)
You can specify the location, for that you want to get the weather information. You can specify the location, for that you want to get the weather information.
If you omit the location name, you will get the information for you current location, If you omit the location name, you will get the information for you current location,
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$ curl wttr.in/@github.com $ curl wttr.in/@github.com
$ curl wttr.in/@msu.ru $ curl wttr.in/@msu.ru
To get this information online, you can access the `:help` page: To get detailed information online, you can access the [/:help](http://wttr.in/:help) page:
$ curl wttr.in/:help $ curl wttr.in/:help
## Special pages
wttr.in can be used not only to check the wheather, but some other purposes also:
$ curl wttr.in/Moon
To see the current Moon phase (uses [pyphoon](https://github.com/chubin/pyphoon) as the backend).
$ curl wttr.in/Moon@2016-12-25
To the Moon phase for the specified date (2016-12-25).
## Translations
wttr.in is currently translated in more than 30 languages.
The preferred language is detected automatically basing on the query headers (Accept-Language)
which is automatically set by the browser or can be set in curl using the -H key ("-H Accept-Language: fr").
The preferred language can be forced using the `lang` option:
$ curl wttr.in/Berlin?lang=de
See [/:translation](http://wttr.in/:translation) to learn more about the translation process,
to see the list of the supported languages, or if you want to help to translate wttr.in in your language.
## Installation ## Installation
To install the program you need: To install the program you need: