Geektool Your Geektool scripts

DEE9299 said:

could you post your script for the calender and date and time also do you know how i can get my hotmail email to show up on the screen like you did?

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date +"%d %B %Y"

date +"%l:%M %p"

tozol said:

OK guys just a few tidy up questions for me, as I think Ill leave mine for now as its my xmas theme, and first go.

But take a look at my screen shot, and you see such things as, my cpu, the battery, and trash, scripts,?
Well simple question, they don't seem to refresh on there own, what I mean is, if left on DT as they should, they just stay the numbers they were previous.

Now if i reopen geektool, and click on the box with the details in, they intsantly refresh, so its like I have to manually refresh them.
Any reason why, and how can I fix it.??

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Topher15 said:

Made a bigger version for my MacBook:

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libwolf said:

You did remember to put a time in for 'Refresh Every' in the properties window, right?

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tozol said:

I left all refresh values at default (0 I think)

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barvid said:

I´m really new to this..

Is there anyone that like to help me to extract METAR´s and TAF´s from these to sites. I´ve tried to figure out how to do it my self but.. well, I don´t have a clue!

METAR and TAF and of course select just the ones o need..

Thanks alot guys!

/Barvid

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barvid said:

Is there anyone that can help me with this..? Pleeeease..

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RogersDA said:

There are several posts in this thread regarding METAR and TAF. Maybe not to your specific sites, but they should help.

https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/8872110/

https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/8872366/

https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/8873110/

https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/8873158/

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RogersDA said:

Based on the image you posted that person probably used two shell windows: one for the echo and one for the date. Fonts are the same, but the sizes are different. The echo shell was also moved to its current location, too, I'm sure.
Here is my quick take:

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Chartreux said:

I wrote a tiny Ruby script to display RSS-feeds.

It takes a RSS-link as the only parameter and displays the channel name + the time and title of each item.

Put something like this in the Command field of GeekTool (I saved it as "rss.rb" in my personal bin directory):

Code:

~/bin/rss.rb https://www.macrumors.com/macrumors.xml

Script:

Code:

#!/usr/bin/ruby

require 'rss'
require 'open-uri'

rss = RSS::Parser.parse open(ARGV.shift).read, false

puts rss.channel.title

rss.items.each_with_index do |item,i|
  puts "" if i.zero? or item.date.day != rss.items[i-1].date.day

  puts "#{item.date.strftime '%H:%M'}  #{item.title}"
end

Remember to turn on the executable bit: chmod +x rss.rb
No need to install Ruby by the way, it's already included in OS X, so it should work out of the box.

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elykl33t said:

I finally managed to make my weather script work, but whenever I try to change the unit from celsius to fahrenheit it stops showing anything at all

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curl --silent "http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/forecastrss?p=USVA0007&u=c" | grep -E '(Current Conditions:|C<BR)' | sed -e 's/Current Conditions://' -e 's/<br \/>//' -e 's/<b>//' -e 's/<\/b>//' -e 's/<BR \/>//' -e 's/<description>//' -e 's/<\/description>//' | tail -n1

curl --silent "http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/forecastrss?p=USVA0007&u=f" | grep -E '(Current Conditions:|F<BR)' | sed -e 's/Current Conditions://' -e 's/<br \/>//' -e 's/<b>//' -e 's/<\/b>//' -e 's/<BR \/>//' -e 's/<description>//' -e 's/<\/description>//' | tail -n1

DEE9299 said:

...do you know how i can get my hotmail email to show up on the screen like you did?

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RogersDA said:

There are two "f" variables that need to be changed to "c" in that script (or vice versa). You only did one.

Celcius

Code:

curl --silent "http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/forecastrss?p=USVA0007&u=c" | grep -E '(Current Conditions:|C<BR)' | sed -e 's/Current Conditions://' -e 's/<br \/>//' -e 's/<b>//' -e 's/<\/b>//' -e 's/<BR \/>//' -e 's/<description>//' -e 's/<\/description>//' | tail -n1

Fahrenheit

Code:

curl --silent "http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/forecastrss?p=USVA0007&u=f" | grep -E '(Current Conditions:|F<BR)' | sed -e 's/Current Conditions://' -e 's/<br \/>//' -e 's/<b>//' -e 's/<\/b>//' -e 's/<BR \/>//' -e 's/<description>//' -e 's/<\/description>//' | tail -n1

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RogersDA said:

I found this post that discusses getting hotmail into Mac Mail. Maybe if that still works then you can use the applescript to output the correct fields.

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DEE9299 said:

I think that was to get it to show up in your mail icon in the dock but I already have my hotmail to show up thru the mail icon in the dock now I need help to get it from there into geektool to the main screen

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set newline to ASCII character 10

set finalText to ""

tell application "Mail"
	set theMessages to (messages of inbox whose read status is false)
	repeat with i from 1 to number of items in theMessages
		set thisMessage to item i of theMessages
		set dateMsg to (date received of thisMessage as string)
		set fromMsg to (sender of thisMessage as string)
		set subjMsg to (subject of thisMessage as string)
		set finalText to finalText & " From: " & word 1 of fromMsg & " " & word 2 of fromMsg & newline & " Date: " & word 3 of dateMsg & " " & word 2 of dateMsg & " " & word 4 of dateMsg & newline & " Subj: " & subjMsg & newline & newline
	end repeat
end tell
finalText

echo Unread EMail
osascript /var/tmp/mail.scpt

RogersDA said:

The script I use for showing mail on the desktop involves two items:
an applescript to get the information
a shell script to run the applescript

The following applescript is placed in the directory of choice. Run applescript, insert the following code, compile/save as a file; e.g., mail.scpt
I use /var/tmp to save all my geektool stuff.

The code below uses several spaces that I use to help things line up when using a fixed-width font.

Code:

set newline to ASCII character 10

set finalText to ""

tell application "Mail"
	set theMessages to (messages of inbox whose read status is false)
	repeat with i from 1 to number of items in theMessages
		set thisMessage to item i of theMessages
		set dateMsg to (date received of thisMessage as string)
		set fromMsg to (sender of thisMessage as string)
		set subjMsg to (subject of thisMessage as string)
		set finalText to finalText & " From: " & word 1 of fromMsg & " " & word 2 of fromMsg & newline & " Date: " & word 3 of dateMsg & " " & word 2 of dateMsg & " " & word 4 of dateMsg & newline & " Subj: " & subjMsg & newline & newline
	end repeat
end tell
finalText

Now, in geektools, I use the following shell to run the script:

Code:

echo Unread EMail
osascript /var/tmp/mail.scpt

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tozol said:

OK guys just a few tidy up questions for me, as I think Ill leave mine for now as its my xmas theme, and first go.

But take a look at my screen shot, and you see such things as, my cpu, the battery, and trash, scripts,?
Well simple question, they don't seem to refresh on there own, what I mean is, if left on DT as they should, they just stay the numbers they were previous.

Now if i reopen geektool, and click on the box with the details in, they intsantly refresh, so its like I have to manually refresh them.
Any reason why, and how can I fix it.??

1 final point, the cpu one, always shows 100%, doesn't seem right.

thanks for any help...
(click on screeny for full size)

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RogersDA said:

The script I use for showing mail on the desktop involves two items:
an applescript to get the information
a shell script to run the applescript

The following applescript is placed in the directory of choice. Run applescript, insert the following code, compile/save as a file; e.g., mail.scpt
I use /var/tmp to save all my geektool stuff.

The code below uses several spaces that I use to help things line up when using a fixed-width font.

Code:

set newline to ASCII character 10

set finalText to ""

tell application "Mail"
	set theMessages to (messages of inbox whose read status is false)
	repeat with i from 1 to number of items in theMessages
		set thisMessage to item i of theMessages
		set dateMsg to (date received of thisMessage as string)
		set fromMsg to (sender of thisMessage as string)
		set subjMsg to (subject of thisMessage as string)
		set finalText to finalText & " From: " & word 1 of fromMsg & " " & word 2 of fromMsg & newline & " Date: " & word 3 of dateMsg & " " & word 2 of dateMsg & " " & word 4 of dateMsg & newline & " Subj: " & subjMsg & newline & newline
	end repeat
end tell
finalText

Now, in geektools, I use the following shell to run the script:

Code:

echo Unread EMail
osascript /var/tmp/mail.scpt

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SchneiderMan said:

Anyway to have Geektool start automatically on startup? i find my self having to start it up again all the time.

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