Geektool Your Geektool scripts

prramesh · Nov 17, 2009

Few scripts

Long back I posted (somewhere in a forum) a collection of shell commands which might be helpful (this was working well with Geektool 2, but some of them doesn't work with Geektool 3). The following are included in the link

Time, Weather, Calendar, CPU Usage, RAM hogger, Disk space, Network connections, Apple Mail unread count, iTunes, RSS, Miscellaneous, Sources, My current scripts

http://www.alice-dsl.net/ctamilselvi/GeekTool.html

G0dl1k3 · Nov 18, 2009

RogersDA said:
I tried your --netherlands/north-holland/haarlem-729636-- on my system and, at first, it did not work. So, I fully exited geektools and restarted it.

I created the Image using the file location file://localhost/var/tmp/weather_test.png

I then created the shell using curl --silent "http://weather.yahoo.com/netherlands/north-holland/haarlem-729636" | grep "forecast-icon" | sed "s/.*background\:url(\'$.*$\')\;\ _background.*/\1/" | xargs curl --silent -o /var/tmp/weather_test.png\

Doing it this time the image shows up. So - you might want to try that (quitting and restarting). Good luck!

Still not working *arghh*

but thanks for helping

maybe it is necessary to download geektool nr 3 ?

G0dl1k3 · Nov 18, 2009

prramesh said:
Long back I posted (somewhere in a forum) a collection of shell commands which might be helpful (this was working well with Geektool 2, but some of them doesn't work with Geektool 3). The following are included in the link

Time, Weather, Calendar, CPU Usage, RAM hogger, Disk space, Network connections, Apple Mail unread count, iTunes, RSS, Miscellaneous, Sources, My current scripts

http://www.alice-dsl.net/ctamilselvi/GeekTool.html

It did the trick with your weather script!

But do you also have a script for temperature and current weather seperated ?? instead of both in one script?

cheers

digitallife · Nov 18, 2009

G0dl1k3 said:
The picture is showing but the shell does not..

I put this in a shell:

curl --silent "http://weather.yahoo.com/netherlands/north-holland/haarlem-729636" | grep "forecast-icon" | sed "s/.*background\:url(\'$.*$\')\;\ _background.*/\1/" | xargs curl --silent -o /tmp/weather.png\

What do you mean the shell is not?
This shell script does not print/output anything. It only retrieves the image that you're using in the second (image) script!

ps: if you don't use this script your picture will never update

catwink21 · Nov 18, 2009

US Weather

Houston: TZ=US/Central date +"Houston: %I:%M %p %D"

tyranna said:
here's a script for a world clock which i got here. i couldn't get the script to work using the setup as depicted on the webpage link, but after switching to gmt format it seems to work just fine.

(i added in the "-" bit which you can remove or replace with another character.)

TZ=Alaska/GMT9 date +"Anchorage: %I:%M %p - %D"
TZ=NewYork/GMT5 date +"New York: %I:%M %p - %D"
TZ=England/GMT date +"London: %I:%M %p - %D"
TZ=Australia/GMT-10 date +"Sydney: %I:%M %p - %D"

(this is a VERY cool thread! )

G0dl1k3 · Nov 18, 2009

digitallife said:
What do you mean the shell is not?
This shell script does not print/output anything. It only retrieves the image that you're using in the second (image) script!

ps: if you don't use this script your picture will never update

Oke !

Than it works, srry for that but I ment the current weather conditions were showing up with this script ( my bad )

thanks for help

Freddychuk · Nov 18, 2009

prramesh said:
Long back I posted (somewhere in a forum) a collection of shell commands which might be helpful (this was working well with Geektool 2, but some of them doesn't work with Geektool 3). The following are included in the link

Time, Weather, Calendar, CPU Usage, RAM hogger, Disk space, Network connections, Apple Mail unread count, iTunes, RSS, Miscellaneous, Sources, My current scripts

http://www.alice-dsl.net/ctamilselvi/GeekTool.html

Hey, I saw your screenshot, and I was wondering how did you do the "pause sign" next to your calendar...?

prramesh · Nov 18, 2009

Bowtie

Freddychuk said:
Hey, I saw your screenshot, and I was wondering how did you do the "pause sign" next to your calendar...?

it's Bowtie app for itunes; http://bowtieapp.com/

RogersDA · Nov 18, 2009

Edit: NM

celticpride678 · Nov 18, 2009

I'm having some trouble getting weather and conditions on GeekTool 3.0RC5. I tried everything. Could someone help me get weather and conditions? I have Lynx installed already. Thanks.

reLAXER564 · Nov 18, 2009

Hi all,

Does anyone know if it would be possible to monitor Transmission or even uTorrent traffic with a shell script? Thanks!

eyedoc_00 · Nov 18, 2009

GeekTool Noob with

ViciousShadow21 said:
just to reiterate what poppero is trying to say, make 3 shell scripts

1st

Code:

curl --silent "http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/forecastrss?p=YOURZIP&u=f" | grep -E '(Current Conditions:|F<BR)' | sed -e 's/Current Conditions://' -e 's/ //' -e 's///' -e 's/<\/b>//' -e 's/ //' -e 's/<description>//' -e 's/<\/description>//'

2nd

Code:

curl --silent "http://weather.yahoo.com/forecast/YOURCITYCODE.html" | grep "forecast-icon" | sed "s/.*background\:url(\'$.*$\')\;\ _background.*/\1/" | xargs curl --silent -o /tmp/weather.png

3rd

Code:

file:///tmp/weather.png

for the first put your zipcode where it says "YOURZIP"

for the second replace your city code, as it appears on weather.yahoo.com, where it says "YOURCITYCODE" should start US.........

for the third just leave it alone and it should work

I have tried these scripts with no luck for number 2 and for the weather image. The first script works. When I go to weather.yahoo.com for my city I get the following page: weather.yahoo.com/united-states/california/sun-city-12796537/ This is for Sun City, California zip code 92585.

I am not sure what I need to do to get this to work. My understanding is that for the 3rd script it is an image, not a shell. I am using GeekTool 3.

Anybody have any suggestions?

Thanks
EDIT: I was able to get it to work. I will try and post my desktop.

eyedoc_00 · Nov 18, 2009

GeekTool Noob with Questions?

deleted. Posted twice.

eyedoc_00 · Nov 18, 2009

First GeekTool Desktop

Me and my daughter came up with this desktop

Stiss · Nov 19, 2009

Thats my first ever Geektool'ed desktop

G0dl1k3 · Nov 19, 2009

Hi,

Can someone tell me how to get the following :

Track ...
Album .....
Artist .....

Shown on the righthand corner of this picture

many thanks,

RogersDA · Nov 19, 2009

G0dl1k3 said:
Hi,

Can someone tell me how to get the following :

Track ...
Album .....
Artist .....

Shown on the righthand corner of this picture

many thanks,

Search this thread and ye shall find

https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/8731878/

G0dl1k3 · Nov 20, 2009

RogersDA said:
Search this thread and ye shall find

https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/8731878/

Worked for me THANKS!!!

cheers

RogersDA · Nov 20, 2009

I updated this post with more information.

If anyone wants to add to it then PM me the information to add.

catwink21 · Nov 20, 2009

XML Weather: How to get it

:apple:

Go here:

http://weather.yahoo.com/united-states/

type in your zip code, enter, your weather should appear. IMPORTANT: next to (The Weather Channel Logo) it should read your city, if not, click on state ( Weather >United States >Texas
find your city, click you city... now your nearest station like this: Nearest weather station: Houston, United States

When this is right...Right click on the rss logo to the right, copy link location. Hooray xml weather link.
Took me all-day to figure this out so I'm passing it on to other Geektool novices like myself.

curl --silent "http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/forecastrss?p=USTX0617&u=f" | grep -e "Current Conditions" -A 1 | tail -n 1 | sed -e 's/ //'
curl --silent "http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/forecastrss?p=USTX0617&u=f" | grep -e "Forecast:" -A 2 | tail -n 2 | sed -e 's/ //' -e 's/ //' | sed "s/$.*$\.\ $.*$/\1\?\2/" | tr "?" "\n" | sed "s/High\:\ $.*$\ Low\:\ $.*$/\?H\: \1\ L\:\ \2/" | sed "s/\?$.*$/\\1/"

catwink21 · Nov 20, 2009

My Fisrt Try

Still a work in progress, not sold on the background or type color.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2607/4120879097_bfbfe93f81_m.jpg

jck1634 · Nov 21, 2009

Here's mine. I wanted it nice and simple.

This is really useful thread. Thanks for all the help

RogersDA · Nov 21, 2009

jck1634 said:
Here's mine. I wanted it nice and simple.
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This is really useful thread. Thanks for all the help

Nice.

Scrbzzz · Nov 21, 2009

I don't like my CPU usage code that much but it was the only one I could get to work, any help?

I really like this code but when I put this is nothing shows up

top -l 1| awk 'CPU usage {print $8, $9}'
top -l 1| awk 'CPU usage {print $10, $11}'
top -l 1| awk 'CPU usage {print $12, $13}'

RogersDA · Nov 21, 2009

Scrbzzz said:
I don't like my CPU usage code that much but it was the only one I could get to work, any help?

I really like this code but when I put this is nothing shows up

top -l 1| awk 'CPU usage {print $8, $9}'
top -l 1| awk 'CPU usage {print $10, $11}'
top -l 1| awk 'CPU usage {print $12, $13}'

Try

Code:

top -l 2 | awk '/CPU usage/ && NR > 5 {print "CPU Usage: ", $3, $4, $5, $6, $7, $8}'

I like this:

Code:

top -l 2 | awk '/CPU usage/ && NR > 5 {print "CPU Usage: ", "User = "$3",", "Sys = "$5",", "Idle = "$7}'

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