incith:weather

• Retrieves weather and forecast data from
• www.wunderground.com
• tested on Eggdrop v1.6.18

This is a new git repo containing a copy of original incith-weather script written by Jordan.

This repo has been setup to allow the community to make changes to the original code base, saving everyone the effort of manually having to apply the same fixes.

Please help keep this script alive contact me for direct push permissions.

Usage

  .chanset channel +weather
   !weather <search>
     returns the current conditions for the city found
   !forecast <search>
     returns a 3-day forecast for the city found
   !sky <location>
     returns the astronomy data for the city found

Forum Support

http://forum.egghelp.org/viewtopic.php?t=10466

ChangeLog:

• 2.0: script re-created. more updates to come.
• 2.1:
  • option for update time to be displayed in 24-hour (default)
  • this removes AM/PM and the timezone if enabled
  • more informative locations
  • uses mobile.wunderground.com for forecast data if it has to
• 2.2: fix for updated time.
• 2.3:
  • can use !w/!fc -set to store a default, if you're an added member of the bots userlist (only way for now).
  • small fix for updated time on some locations preventing results from being sent, igloolik was one such city.
• 2.4:
  • added new variable 'public_to_private' to control whether replies are sent to the channel or to the user requesting.
  • if it is set, the user will get /msg'd with the results, or they will get /notice'd if variable 'notices' is set to 1.
• 2.5a:
  • fixed high/low showing yesterdays data sometimes.. also if todays forecast is not available it will try mobiles.
• 2.6:
  • moved error checking higher up in fetch_html, fixes london.
  • convert EEST to EET to as Tcl does not recognize EEST (?) this fixes any location with EEST.
• 2.6a:
  • there should never be a clock issue again as timezones are no longer being used in calculations, at all.
• 2.7:
  • astronomy is back, !sky
  • multiple results problem fixed (hull, united kingdom).
  • variable weather_format controls which weather data's sent.
  • forecast_format controls which forecast data's sent.
  • pressure has been added back to !weather (%w9%).
  • fixed a bug in the way i was grabbing wind direction basically, it wasn't showing 'Calm' when it actually was
  • searches (!w malaysia for example) will now return multiple results correctly.
  • wunderground seems to have gone to a 3-day forecast for most locations, so I've modified the script accordingly.
  • tries to fetch the current local time and date for accurate high/low display.
• 2.7a: oops, small fix for 'unable to convert date time string'
• 2.8:
  • fixed multiple results (especially !w india). this works now by stripping locations without temperatures no more 'cannot read (update_time)' in multiple results.
• 2.8a: more multiple results fixes.
• 2.8b: more multiple results fixes. woot.
• 2.8c: fixed conditions / location / todays_day / UV, and astronomy.
• 2.8d: more fixes for forecast and location.
• 2.8e: wunderground changed something that broke forecast; fixed.
• 2.8f:
  • fixed a bug for the location 'unknown' and similar results.
  • changed flood protection to ignore +f flagged users.
  • wunderground removed tags breaking a lot of things.
  • fixed locations that have blank sunrise/sunset data.
• 2.8g: removed tags from html to fix things breaking again.
• 2.8h: fixed multiple results (they changed the layout). again.
• 2.8i: it's not my fault, honest! more multiple results fixes.
• 2.8j: fixes: temp, dew point, wind speed, better mobile backup.
• 2.8k:
  • added longitude & latitude back (optional, show_lat_lon var)
  • major improvements to multiple results.
  • forecast will show the % chance of precipitation.
  • script was fetching mobile more often than it needed, fixed.
• 2.8L: forecast modified for unknown change, capital L for LOLS!
• 2.8m: more small fixes and updates.
• 2.8n: windchill fix.
• 2.8o: they made units cookie based, fix to compensate.
• 2.8p: fix for public_to_private not working.
• 2.8q: Correct missing celsius information, current weather only
  returns farenheight. Script now converts on it's own.
• 2.8r: Added "nickname" prefixes to commands optional. default is on
• 2.9: Correct missing celsius info for dewpoint. same fix as temp.
• 2.9a: Corrected the way I was removing extraneous decimel points and ending 0's.
• 2.9b: Corrected cruft within updated time.
• 2.9c: Corrected multiple results.
• 2.9d: Initial Refixed Version - There will be problems.
• 2.9e: Rollup of community fixes (use tls, switch to https)
  • You will need to install the TLS TCl modules: tcl-tls (Ubuntu) or tcltls-devel package (thanks mtnvortest)

Contact:

E-mail (incith@gmail.com) cleanups, ideas, bugs, etc., to me.

TODO:

• locales for output (languages)

• fix multiple results, take best match, etc

• merge _handlers, allow all %var% in all _formats, max_results
• limit size of output, check length of variables?

LICENSE:

This code comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/library.txt)

Copyleft (C) 2005-10, Jordan incith@gmail.com (paypal donations accepted) irc.freenode.net / incith