Unknown Location

[backslash-f]

$ curl -s 'wttr.in/Berlin?format=3&m'
Unknown location; please try ~52.52045,13.40732

[herrwusel]

wttr.in in general seems to have problems currently.

[chubin]

Should be fixed; please test

[Jonta]

Was broken before

Works again here

[pvonmoradi]

Should be fixed; please test

curl "v2.wttr.in/berlin"
Unknown location; please try ~52.52045,13.40732
Follow @igor_chubin for wttr.in updates

[chubin]

Now this is for real. Will be not available for the next 4 hours. Stay tuned. I will update you, as soon as it is back online

[jacobsebek]

What about the error message not leaking my location? I am not a fan of that.

[chubin]

How is it leaking? It is only you who sees the error message; but I agree, that the message could be more accurate/relevant

[jacobsebek]

Well, if someone runs curl and this error occurs, it shows your coordinates. I'd say it's undesired and a significant privacy risk. (What if someone is streaming it, blindly sending the output somewhere, idk). Doesn't seem particularly relevant either. (I pipe the output of the query straight to my status bar, you can say this is a stupid thing to do on my part, but still..)

[mr-pmillz]

yeah same. i love having weather in my tmux status bar, however due to frequent outages, my tmux status bar is frequently messed up. Awesome project though by the way, just curious why so many outages?

[chubin]

For many reasons, but mainly because of it’s absolutely free nature (free as in freedom and free as in beer) combined with high popularity (~20M queries daily).

Regarding error message: agreed, I will fix it

[chubin]

A little bit more details: from time to time we reach the top data source capacity daily limit (as today), and so we can’t do nothing about, but just wait. We could increase the capacity permanently, but it would cost much more than it costs now; many users proposed many times to fund the service via patreon etc; maybe that is the way to go, but I am not sure how many are willing to do it for real. Just out of curiosity, my question to them who read the thread: would you support the service with $1/month if it would reduce number of outages by 80%? (serious question)

[MAGICCC]

I don't use wttr.in so much but a dollar wouldnt hurt if its help you. I do it with a different project here on GitHub for its Patreon page

[chubin]

Thank you @MAGICCC
wttr.in is back

[chubin]

the problem was fixed 4 days ago; regarding the location exposure in the error message, it will be fixed as part of #199, #280, #548

[Jonta]

For posterity: Even though the coordinates shown on my system had even more significant digits than in those in the original post, the location wasn't super accurate according to a search on https://www.openstreetmap.org

[chubin]

@Jonta The wttr.in data comes from openstreetmap, by the way

[Jonta]

As a logging thing for further debugging: It's happening again right now, and has happened at least once more between @chubin replying to me and now

Putting in coordinates works, so I've modified my setup to check whether the 1st word is "Unknown"

[chubin]

@Jonta How can I reproduce it?

[Jonta]

@chubin Be in my location yesterday, and run curl -s wttr.in/?format=1

• Error message suggests the correct coordinates
• curling with those coordinates gave me the weather

So what's happening seems to be:

Me: "What's the weather where I am?"
Wttr: "Oh, I don't know where you are. Try asking me what the weather is at [your coordinates] instead"
M: "OK. What's the weather at [my coordinates]?"
W: "This weather, and this temperature"
M: "Thanks. But if you knew all that, why didn't you just tell me from the start?"

[chubin]

Yes, this is definitely a bug, but I can't understand under circumstances it happens.
The same command works perfectly for me of course.

A couple of other questions:

1. Does curl wttr.in works for you?
2. Does curl v2.wttr.in works for you?
3. Does curl wttr.in/<Location>?format=1 works for you?

I suppose that (3) works, but who knows

[Jonta]

~ curl wttr.in

Follow @igor_chubin for wttr.in updates

~ curl v2.wttr.in
Unknown location; please try ~[my coordinates]
Follow @igor_chubin for wttr.in updates

~ curl wttr.in/[My location]?format=1
Unknown location; please try [my coordinates]~

Note that in the last one, there's no newline at the end

[chubin]

Thank you for reporting it! The outage was fixed 4 days ago. Since that the service works without interruptions

[Jonta]

Same as above, except for:

~ curl v2.wttr.in

Sorry, we are running out of queries to the weather service at the moment.
Here is the weather report for the default city (just to show you what it looks like).
We will get new queries as soon as possible.
You can follow https://twitter.com/igor_chubin for the updates.
======================================================================================

[Jonta]

Same on 1 & 2 as above now

But 3 gives weather info

Tried all 3 of them twice

[Jonta]

1 and 2 work now, but 3 gives "Unknown location; please try [my coordinates here]"

[Jonta]

1 works

2 and 3 do not

[Jonta]

Possibly related: 1 now gives me a 404, unknown location. And then

We were unable to find your location 
 so we have brought you to Oymyakon, 
 one of the coldest permanently inhabited locales on the planet.

2 tells me wttr.in is running out of queries, and does not give me the weather report for the default city, even though it tells me it does

3 tells me it's +17°C in my location, which it definitely is not

[chubin]

@Jonta Please test it now

[Jonta]

@chubin Only saw this just now. All 3 seem to work well now

[Jonta]

1: Follow @igor_chubin for wttr.in updates (took >10 s to respond the first time)
2:

<html>
<head><title>502 Bad Gateway</title></head>
<body bgcolor="white">
<center><h1>502 Bad Gateway</h1></center>
<hr><center>nginx/1.10.3</center>
</body>
</html>

Next time I tried: Unknown location; please try [my coordinates]
3: curl: (52) Empty reply from server

[chubin]

Was down for some time on Apr 24, but quickly recovered. Thank you all for reporting!

[Jonta]

Sorry, we are running out of queries to the weather service at the moment.

(Just for the record)

[chubin]

Should work already, please recheck and thank you for reporting 👍