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Sorry I'm new here is it possible to get weather from local news site for nerdtool/geekTool?

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prisoner-x said:
run like the wind....

any really good weather scripts that get 5 day 4cast :D ???

I have tried this but doesn't work...?

Code: 
lynx -dump http://printer.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/hdfForecast?query=17552|awk '/Temp/{printf $2, ": "; for (i=3; i<=3; i++) printf $i " " }'
lynx -dump http://printer.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/hdfForecast?query=17552|awk '/Cond/ && !/Fore/ {for (i=2; i<=10; i++) printf $i " " }'
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I have a script that pulls the 5 day forecast from Yahoo. Check the link in my signature.

I pulled the link you provided above with curl and get the following:
Code: 
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<TITLE>500 Internal Server Error</TITLE>
</HEAD><BODY>
<H1>Internal Server Error</H1>
The server encountered an internal error or
misconfiguration and was unable to complete
your request.<P>
Please contact the server administrator,
 support@wunderground.com and inform them of the time the error occurred,
and anything you might have done that may have
caused the error.<P>
More information about this error may be available
in the server error log.<P>
<HR>
<ADDRESS>Apache/1.3.33 Server at 365-s3.wunderground.com Port 80</ADDRESS>
</BODY></HTML>

This means to me that the URL is incorrect; even throwing just the URL into a browser returns a server error.
 
xtacocorex said:
I have a script that pulls the 5 day forecast from Yahoo. Check the link in my signature.
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Thanks I will check out ur 5 day.

I pulled the link you provided above with curl and get the following:
Code: 
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<TITLE>500 Internal Server Error</TITLE>
</HEAD><BODY>
<H1>Internal Server Error</H1>
The server encountered an internal error or
misconfiguration and was unable to complete
your request.<P>
Please contact the server administrator,
 support@wunderground.com and inform them of the time the error occurred,
and anything you might have done that may have
caused the error.<P>
More information about this error may be available
in the server error log.<P>
<HR>
<ADDRESS>Apache/1.3.33 Server at 365-s3.wunderground.com Port 80</ADDRESS>
</BODY></HTML>

This means to me that the URL is incorrect; even throwing just the URL into a browser returns a server error.
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Yeah when I put that in the browser I could get the state listing but when I selected a county that when I got the error also..
 
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Posted by xtacocorex
I have a script that pulls the 5 day forecast from Yahoo. Check the link in my signature.
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using nerdTool how do I pull the 4cast, couldn't find any info :confused:
 
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How do I get the image and week to show using nerdTool? all I get is "waning crescent"


mvasilakis said:
Nice Thanks!!!

Also in case anyone is interested I wanted to get the text for the current moon phase to go along with the xplanet render and made this small shell script to fetch it for me:

#! /bin/bash
cd /tmp
curl "http://www.die.net/moon/" -o "moon.txt" # moon phase html
INPUT=/tmp/moon.txt
phase2=$(awk 'NR==27' "${INPUT}" | awk '{print $1 " " $2}' | tr ',' ' ')
printf "%-5s\n" "$phase2"
rm /tmp/moon.txt
exit 0
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Hello again.

A while ago, I received some help in this thread to install ImageMagick in order to display GeekTool info on a slight angle. I come to you on my knees! I am something of a n00b at terminal, which means I am lost as to how to create this effect.

I have tried to follow the guide that Flyne wrote on page 23, but unfortunately it gets me nowhere. I create the shell with the following code: date | /opt/local/bin/convert -rotate 10 -background none -fill white -pointsize 22 label:mad:- -trim ~/label.png and then an image script, but unfortunately the shell script never created the image, which means I have nothing to link the image script to.

If someone can create a quick video tutorial on how to accomplish this, I would be over the moon :) Or perhaps explain it into more detail? Thanks a bunch!
 
ShortyDK85 said:
Hello again.

A while ago, I received some help in this thread to install ImageMagick in order to display GeekTool info on a slight angle. I come to you on my knees! I am something of a n00b at terminal, which means I am lost as to how to create this effect.

I have tried to follow the guide that Flyne wrote on page 23, but unfortunately it gets me nowhere. I create the shell with the following code: date | /opt/local/bin/convert -rotate 10 -background none -fill white -pointsize 22 label:mad:- -trim ~/label.png and then an image script, but unfortunately the shell script never created the image, which means I have nothing to link the image script to.

If someone can create a quick video tutorial on how to accomplish this, I would be over the moon :) Or perhaps explain it into more detail? Thanks a bunch!
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I just started a few days ago myself, I use this with nerdTool and it works fine. If you open the Terminal and type
Code: 
convert -version
this will tell you what version of imageMagick you have.

I use this
Code: 
date "+%d" | /usr/local/bin/convert -rotate 90 -background none -fill black -font Nanum-Pen-Script-Regular -channel RGBA -blur 0x6 -pointsize 144 -density 200 label:@- -trim ~/Documents/Nerdz/date.png

my desktop
 
ShortyDK85 said:
Hello again.

A while ago, I received some help in this thread to install ImageMagick in order to display GeekTool info on a slight angle. I come to you on my knees! I am something of a n00b at terminal, which means I am lost as to how to create this effect.

I have tried to follow the guide that Flyne wrote on page 23, but unfortunately it gets me nowhere. I create the shell with the following code: date | /opt/local/bin/convert -rotate 10 -background none -fill white -pointsize 22 label:mad:- -trim ~/label.png and then an image script, but unfortunately the shell script never created the image, which means I have nothing to link the image script to.

If someone can create a quick video tutorial on how to accomplish this, I would be over the moon :) Or perhaps explain it into more detail? Thanks a bunch!
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The issue is the path to convert. Flyne's tutorial has you install ImageMagick with fink or macports which ultimately installs the ImageMagick binary in /opt/local/bin.

As prisoner-x said above, just fix the path to convert or use the code below.

Code: 
date | convert -rotate 10 -background none -fill white -pointsize 22 label:@- -trim ~/label.png
 
Geektool Script Help!

Not sure if this is the right spot or not but thought I'd give it a shot!. I am in the middle of customizing my desktop with Geektool. I've got a lot of the things I want displayed (weather, clock, system info, etc). I am having trouble with the webcam from this site -

http://www.brianhead.com/winter/mountain-info/webcam/index.html

I've gotten other web site cams to work, just not his one :confused:. Does anyone have the web cam script or can they show me how to script this into Geektool. I am using the "image" portion of the Geektool to load this.

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!
 
Thanks! I've searched this site and many others. I am able to put up other cams just not this one. Here is what i've been pasting into the "image" option on Geektool.

"http://www.ipcamhost.com/caller.jsp?id=156&path=brian&stream=relay&w=800&h=450"

It just never shows up
 
Thank you for the quick responses. I really wish I could say that it worked, but I still have the same problem, even if I use the link supplied by xtacocorex :( It still wont create the evasive "label.png"
 
iMacVegas said:
Thanks! I've searched this site and many others. I am able to put up other cams just not this one. Here is what i've been pasting into the "image" option on Geektool.

"http://www.ipcamhost.com/caller.jsp?id=156&path=brian&stream=relay&w=800&h=450"

It just never shows up
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You have to strip the image out of the html code, save the image to a file on your computer, and then use geektool to display that image file.
 
trying to change the font type in imagemagick by using the flag command-line options in the they provide on website. But neither of them are working. So I don't know what font imagemagick is using by default.
 
to find what fonts you can use for imageMagick use this command in terminal

Code: 
convert -list font


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ShortyDK85 said:
Thank you for the quick responses. I really wish I could say that it worked, but I still have the same problem, even if I use the link supplied by xtacocorex :( It still wont create the evasive "label.png"
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if you type
Code: 
convert -version
you will see

Version: ImageMagick 6.7.1-1 2012-01-16 Q16 http://www.imagemagick.org
Copyright: Copyright (C) 1999-2011 ImageMagick Studio LLC
Features: OpenMP

if you DON'T see that then you DON'T have imageMagick installed!
 
prisoner-x said:
to find what fonts you can use for imageMagick use this command in terminal

Code: 
convert -list font


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if you type
Code: 
convert -version
you will see

Version: ImageMagick 6.7.1-1 2012-01-16 Q16 http://www.imagemagick.org
Copyright: Copyright (C) 1999-2011 ImageMagick Studio LLC
Features: OpenMP

if you DON'T see that then you DON'T have imageMagick installed!
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Thanks. But I just got it all work out myself.
 
You have to strip the image out of the html code, save the image to a file on your computer, and then use geektool to display that image file.
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You make it sound so easy! Hate to be a pain, but how might I go about doing that?
 
Is there a non-flash, auto-refreshing image version of this web cam? AFAIK, the image geeklet can't display a flash animation like the one on your link. If I'm mistaken though, I'd like to see the links for your other webcams that you have working.
 
prisoner-x said:
to find what fonts you can use for imageMagick use this command in terminal

Code: 
convert -list font


----------



if you type
Code: 
convert -version
you will see

Version: ImageMagick 6.7.1-1 2012-01-16 Q16 http://www.imagemagick.org
Copyright: Copyright (C) 1999-2011 ImageMagick Studio LLC
Features: OpenMP

if you DON'T see that then you DON'T have imageMagick installed!
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ImageMagick is installed... Although a different version than yours. When I have created the shell script, how do I move it on the desktop with NerdTool? I am a complete n00b at this program (only used GeekTool)... In GeekTool, you mark the shell and drag it into the desktop, but I can't see the same option in NerdTool?

I've tried using the following code in a GeekTool shell without any luck:
date | /Users/Shorty/ImageMagick/libwmf-0.2.8.4/src/ -rotate 10 -background none -fill white -pointsize 22 label:mad:- -trim ~/label.png
 
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ShortyDK85 said:
ImageMagick is installed... Although a different version than yours. When I have created the shell script, how do I move it on the desktop with NerdTool? I am a complete n00b at this program (only used GeekTool)... In GeekTool, you mark the shell and drag it into the desktop, but I can't see the same option in NerdTool?

I've tried using the following code in a GeekTool shell without any luck:
date | /Users/Shorty/ImageMagick/libwmf-0.2.8.4/src/ -rotate 10 -background none -fill white -pointsize 22 label:mad:- -trim ~/label.png
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Shorty, this is odd because we got your ImageMagick working in this post: https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/14026397/

Your convert binary should be in /usr/local/bin.

Crazy thing is, in post 3427 you showed an image, so it should work. I wonder if it's the label flag in your original command.

Try this:
Code: 
 | convert -rotate 10 -background none -fill white -pointsize 22 text:- -trim ~/label.png

That works for me, so it should work for you. I'm even uploading the file for proof.
 

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iMacVegas said:
You make it sound so easy! Hate to be a pain, but how might I go about doing that?
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The ipcamhost link doesn't work and when I do get text in the browser, there is mention of shockwave, so that won't work.

The brainhead link is Flash, so that won't work either.
 
xtacocorex said:
Shorty, this is odd because we got your ImageMagick working in this post: https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/14026397/

Your convert binary should be in /usr/local/bin.

Crazy thing is, in post 3427 you showed an image, so it should work. I wonder if it's the label flag in your original command.

Try this:
Code: 
 | convert -rotate 10 -background none -fill white -pointsize 22 text:- -trim ~/label.png

That works for me, so it should work for you. I'm even uploading the file for proof.
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I know, right... Although, when we created the image in post 3427, we did it in Terminal rather than through a code in GeekTool. I have tried to use your code in a shell with GeekTool, but when enabling "Status Feedback", the indicator is red. Furthermore, I tried searching for the file it is supposed to create, "label.png" and it is nowhere to be found :(

By the way, I can't see the file you have uploaded. Try uploading to http://www.zippyshare.com/ and posting the URL in here.
 
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