awesome-wm-widgets/weather-api-widget

WeatherAPI widget

The widget consists of one section:

• current weather, including humidity, wind speed, UV index

Customization

It is possible to customize widget by providing a table with all or some of the following config parameters:

Name	Default	Description
coordinates	Required	Table with two elements: latitude and longitude, e.g. {46.204400, 6.143200}
api_key	Required	Follow the documentation
font_name	beautiful.font:gsub("%s%d+$", "")	Name of the font to use e.g. 'Play'
units	metric	metric for celsius, imperial for fahrenheit
icon_pack_name	weather-underground-icons	Name of the icon pack, could be weather-underground-icon or VitalyGorbachev or create your own, more details below
icons_extension	.png	File extension of icons in the pack
timeout	120	How often in seconds the widget refreshes

Icons:

The widget comes with two predefined icon packs:

• weather-underground-icons
• VitalyGorbachev

To add your custom icons, create a folder with the pack name under /icons and use the folder name in widget's config. There should be 18 icons, preferably 128x128 minimum. Icons should also respect the naming convention, please check widget's source.

Examples

Custom font, icons

weather_api_widget({
    api_key='<your-key>',
    coordinates = {45.5017, -73.5673},
    units = 'imperial',
    font_name = 'Carter One',
    icons = 'VitalyGorbachev',
    icons_extension = '.svg',
}),

Only current weather

weather_api_widget({
    api_key='<your-key>',
    coordinates = {45.5017, -73.5673},
}),

Installation

1. Download json parser for lua from github.com/rxi/json.lua and place it under ~/.config/awesome/ (don't forget to star a repo ):

   wget -P ~/.config/awesome/ https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rxi/json.lua/master/json.lua
   

2. Clone this repo under ~/.config/awesome/:

   git clone https://github.com/streetturtle/awesome-wm-widgets.git ~/.config/awesome/
   

3. Get Weather API key.

4. Require weather widget at the beginning of rc.lua:

   local weather_api_widget = require("awesome-wm-widgets.weather-api-widget.weather")
   

5. Add widget to the tasklist:

   s.mytasklist, -- Middle widget
       { -- Right widgets
           layout = wibox.layout.fixed.horizontal,
           ...
           --default
           weather_api_widget({
               api_key='<your-key>',
               coordinates = {45.5017, -73.5673},
           }),
           ,
           --customized
           weather_api_widget({
               api_key='<your-key>',
               coordinates = {45.5017, -73.5673},
               units = 'imperial',
               font_name = 'Carter One',
               icons = 'VitalyGorbachev',
               icons_extension = '.svg',
           }),
           ...
   

How it works

The widget calls the API repeatedly in the specified intervals. The JSON response is parsed and interpreted to build the popup.