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*wttr.in — the right way to check the weather.*
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.
like terminal oriented ANSI-sequences for console HTTP clients (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.
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![Weather Report](http://wttr.in/MyLocation.png?)
(it's not your location actually, because GitHub's CDN hides your real IP address with its own IP address,
(it's not your location actually. GitHub's CDN hides your real IP address with its own IP address,
but it is still a live weather report in your language).
You can specify the location that you want to get the weather information for.
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$ curl wttr.in/London
$ curl wttr.in/Moscow
You can use 3-letters airport codes if you want to get the weather information
about some airports:
Use 3-letters airport codes in order to get the weather information
at a certain airport:
$ curl wttr.in/muc # Weather for IATA: muc, Munich International Airport, Germany
$ curl wttr.in/ham # Weather for IATA: ham, Hamburg Airport, Germany
If you want to specify a location that is not a city/town's name, but a name of some geographical location
(e.g. it can be a site in a city, a mountain name, a special location etc.) you should place `~` before its name.
If you want to use some geographical location (not just a town or a city)
(e.g. it can be a site in a city, a mountain name, a special location, etc.) you should place `~` before its name.
That means the location name should be looked up before:
$ curl wttr.in/~Vostok+Station
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$ wget wttr.in/Paris_0tqp_lang=fr.png
Special useful options for the PNG format:
Useful options for the PNG format:
* `t` for transparency (`transparency=150`);
* transparency=0..255 for a custom transparency level.
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## Special pages
wttr.in can be used not only to check the weather, but also for some other purposes:
wttr.in can be used not only to check the weather:
$ curl wttr.in/Moon