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wttr.in — the right way to check the weather.
*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.
wttr.in is a console oriented weather forecast service, that supports various information representation methods
like terminal oriented ANSI-sequences for 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) for visualization
and various data sources for weather forecast information.
You can check it at [wttr.in](http://wttr.in).
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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 your current location,
based on your IP address.
$ curl wttr.in/London
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$ curl wttr.in/:help
## Additional options
By default the USCS units are used for the queries from the USA and the
metric system for the rest for the world.
You can override this behavior with the following options:
$ curl wttr.in/Amsterdam?u
$ curl wttr.in/Amsterdam?m
## Special pages
wttr.in can be used not only to check the wheather, but some other purposes also:
wttr.in can be used not only to check the wheather, but for some other purposes also:
$ curl wttr.in/Moon
To see the current Moon phase (uses [pyphoon](https://github.com/chubin/pyphoon) as the backend).
To see the current Moon phase (uses [pyphoon](https://github.com/chubin/pyphoon) as its backend).
$ curl wttr.in/Moon@2016-12-25
To the Moon phase for the specified date (2016-12-25).
To see 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 is detected automatically basing on the query headers (`Accept-Language`)
which is automatically set by the browser or can be set explicitly using command line options
in console clients (for example: `curl -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.
to see the list of the supported languages, or to know how you can help to translate wttr.in in your language.
## Installation