ASCII Art Weather

#1

Post by hjc89 » Thu, Apr 14, 2016, 7:03 AM UTC

Re: ASCII Art Weather

#2

Post by slazaro » Thu, Apr 14, 2016, 8:12 AM UTC

(Meta)

Perhaps the link should point to the base URL, apparently it detects your location if available (didn't work for me because I have it disabled).

Re: ASCII Art Weather

#3

Post by oneeyedpigeon » Thu, Apr 14, 2016, 8:25 AM UTC

It's pretty cool, but it doesn't quite line up for me. Unicode characters (but ... "ASCII"?) are the prime culprit, but something also going on with the 'delimitting' header lines too - they're way off.

Re: ASCII Art Weather

#4

Post by d99kris » Thu, Apr 14, 2016, 8:29 AM UTC

slazaro wrote: post #2

(Meta) Perhaps the link should point to the base URL, apparently it detects your location if available (didn't work for me because I have it disabled).

Looks like it was submitted 2 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11477365 , so maybe it was done to avoid the dupe detection.

Re: ASCII Art Weather

#5

Post by d99kris » Thu, Apr 14, 2016, 8:30 AM UTC

oneeyedpigeon wrote: post #3

It's pretty cool, but it doesn't quite line up for me. Unicode characters (but ... "ASCII"?) are the prime culprit, but something also going on with the 'delimitting' header lines too - they're way off.

Agree it doesn't render well in Chrome for example. In elinks and firefox under Linux it looks fine for me though.

Re: ASCII Art Weather

#6

Post by benzinschleuder » Thu, Apr 14, 2016, 8:31 AM UTC

It works in the Terminal, too!

curl http://wttr.in/london

Re: ASCII Art Weather

#7

Post by chrisdew » Thu, Apr 14, 2016, 8:35 AM UTC

Why does it forecast sunshine at night?

Re: ASCII Art Weather

#8

Post by Jaruzel » Thu, Apr 14, 2016, 8:44 AM UTC

benzinschleuder wrote: post #6

It works in the Terminal, too! curl http://wttr.in/london

But not as native ANSI though? Unless it's doing some clever useragent detection? (I'm on Windows without curl/wget).

Re: ASCII Art Weather

#9

Post by benzinschleuder » Thu, Apr 14, 2016, 8:50 AM UTC

Jaruzel wrote: post #8

benzinschleuder wrote: post #6

It works in the Terminal, too! curl http://wttr.in/london

But not as native ANSI though? Unless it's doing some clever useragent detection? (I'm on Windows without curl/wget).

Dunno, tried it on OS X and it's colorful and looks good.

Re: ASCII Art Weather

#10

Post by itcrowd » Thu, Apr 14, 2016, 8:51 AM UTC

oneeyedpigeon wrote: post #3

It's pretty cool, but it doesn't quite line up for me. Unicode characters (but ... "ASCII"?) are the prime culprit, but something also going on with the 'delimitting' header lines too - they're way off.

Works fine for me in Chromium, Firefox/Iceweasel and curl..