Geektool: Your Geektool scripts

[bugmcw]

Originally Posted by MacDawg

This is the only forecast script I have
I don't know enough about the code to change it
But I am sure others do
I just borrow, copy and paste

curl  "http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?p=YOURCITY&u=f" | grep -e "Forecast:" -A 2 | tail -n 2 | sed -e 's/<br \/>//' -e 's/<BR \/>//' | sed "s/\(.*\)\.\ \(.*\)/\1\?\2/" | tr "?" "\n" | sed "s/High\:\ \(.*\)\ Low\:\ \(.*\)/\?H\: \1\  L\:\ \2/" | sed "s/\?\(.*\)/\\1/"

Woof, Woof - Dawg

yeah thats the same code i am using... huh... i just don't know enough about what stuff means to parse out the information i actually want.

[poppero]

Originally Posted by jck1634

Yeah I can't get that to work for me. Any chance you could share the separators you extracted?

download it from this link.
I do this the same size of the background image, this way you should simply overlay them in NT or GT.

[jck1634]

Gave it another try, except added a little outer glow to it.



I'm actually quite pleased with it so far.

Thanks for the link! Will give it a try with your separators.

[MacDawg]

I had to open the image in GraphicConverter and make the background transparent, then it worked like a charm

Just duplicate the first image in GT and change the file name

Thanks!




Woof, Woof - Dawg

[jck1634]

Thanks bud. Love the way the separators look. Got rid of the outer glow.

[jck1634]

After much tweaking I've finally finished it!

It started off as this...



then to this...



then this..



and after adding some inner bevel, shadow and a touch of gloss, I think I've finally cracked it!



I'm really happy how it turned out. Think I'm going to leave it alone now and get some sleep

[poppero]

Originally Posted by jck1634

and after adding some inner bevel, shadow and a touch of gloss, I think I've finally cracked it!

wonderful!!! next step would be sharing your final lines template with us

P.S.: what string do you use to have "1 °C" with the ° in Celsius indication???

[oneijose]

Originally Posted by poppero

wonderful!!! next step would be sharing your final lines template with us

This is a great point!!

[proofrock]

Poppero,

Love this script. Would adore it if someone could help me figure out how to insert a degree mark between the temp and "F".


Best,

Proofrock

Originally Posted by poppero

sorry, I forget a space in the regular expression...

curl --silent "http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?p=YOURCITY&u=c" | grep -E '(Current Conditions:|[A-Z]<BR)' | sed -e 's/Current Conditions://' -e 's/<br \/>//' -e 's/<b>//' -e 's/<\/b>//' -e 's/<BR \/>//' -e 's/<description>//' -e 's/<\/description>//' -e 's/[A-Z a-z]*, //' | tail -n1

this one works great!

[jck1634]

Originally Posted by poppero

wonderful!!! next step would be sharing your final lines template with us

P.S.: what string do you use to have "1 °C" with the ° in Celsius indication???

I'm cheating a little with the degree symbol. it's just echo o :P

I'm on my iPhone at the moment. I'll put up the lines once I'm home!

Oh and while I'm here, do you or anyone else know of a way to show just the hi-lo temperature for the day?

[poppero]

Originally Posted by jck1634

I'm cheating a little with the degree symbol. it's just echo o :P

i tried with echo even with char hex code but not provide the expected result...

UPDATE:
i found a regex for the ° symbol, this is the complete script for degrees only:

curl --silent "http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/forecastrss?p=YOURCITY&u=c" | grep -E '(Current Conditions:|[A-Z]<BR)' | sed -e 's/Current Conditions://' -e 's/<br \/>//' -e 's/<b>//' -e 's/<\/b>//' -e 's/<BR \/>//' -e 's/[A-Z a-z]*, //' -e 's/\(.*\) F/\1 °F/' -e 's/\(.*\) C/\1 °C/' | tail -n1

I modified it to auto-fix both Celsius and Fahrenheit notation.
Note: you must remember to set the encoding to UTF-8!

This is my creation...

[jck1634]

That looks great!

I'm so glad this is catching on!!

[MacDawg]

Originally Posted by poppero

This is my creation...

What font are you using for the time?
Thanks for the script!
Works like a charm!

Woof, Woof - Dawg

[jck1634]

Hey guys! I've uploaded the separator I'm using. It's been extracted from the original image. I added an inner bevel which adds the slight inner shadow to give it a bit of depth and then placed a small white transparent gradient to give the numbers a bit of gloss, again for a bit more depth.

Download

It's only one separator so you need to make two geeklets for the same image file and then just resize it over the numbers.

I think it works pretty well.

[oneijose]

Originally Posted by jck1634

Hey guys! I've uploaded the separator I'm using. It's been extracted from the original image. I added an inner bevel which adds the slight inner shadow to give it a bit of depth and then placed a small white transparent gradient to give the numbers a bit of gloss, again for a bit more depth.

Download

It's only one separator so you need to make two geeklets for the same image file and then just resize it over the numbers.

I think it works pretty well.

Thanks dude.....U R THE MAN!!

[poppero]

Originally Posted by MacDawg

What font are you using for the time?

Eurostile

[MacDawg]

Originally Posted by poppero

Eurostile

Thanks!
May give it a try myself

Woof, Woof - Dawg

[jck1634]

I'm just going to write up a little guide for any beginners to Geektool who may want to have this on their desktop



Watch this video first, if your completely new to geektool

The First thing you'll need is the background which you can download here
Save the background image in a folder where you'll remember it is

Then to place the image onto your desktop just drag the image icon from Geektools preference pane on to your desktop


and then specify the location of the image inside the box above [set local path].
(or you could just click the button and find the image when the pop up box appears)

Now you should have the HTC background on your desktop


Place this anywhere on your desktop where you want the Geeklet to sit.

All the next commands are Shell commands.

Next thing to add would be the Hour and Minute.

Hour

date +%I

Minute

date +%M

Quick Tip: Make sure you use the center alignment on these two to make sure they stay in the middle of the white boxes

The City name is just a simple echo which just displays any text you want it to. So in this case...

echo YOURCITYNAME

On the other side we have the day, month and date.

Use this Script:

date +'%A, %b %d'

The script for this is:

date +%p

Lay these little geeklets over your background in whichever way you want. It doesn’t have to be the way I have it here

To get the weather for your city you need to first head over to Yahoo Weather and do a search for your city. Copy and save the URL for your city as you'll need it later.
Then, whilst on the page for your city's weather, hit the RSS button and the page will change to a feed page. In the URL for this page you'll see a code that’s all in uppercase. That’s your city code. Copy and save this next to your city URL as you will need this later aswell.

To get the current weather for your location

Current Weather Conditions You'll need this script:

curl --silent "http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?p=YOURCITYCODE&u=c" | grep -E '(Current Conditions:|[A-Z]<BR)' | sed -e 's/Current Conditions://' -e 's/<br \/>//' -e 's/<b>//' -e 's/<\/b>//' -e 's/<BR \/>//' -e 's/<description>//' -e 's/<\/description>//' -e 's/, [0-9]* [A-Z]//' | tail -n1

Where it says YOURCITYCODE enter the uppercase code you found for your city previously.

To get the Temperature, Use this script:

curl --silent "http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/forecastrss?p=UKXX0085&u=c" | grep -E '(Current Conditions:|[A-Z]<BR)' | sed -e 's/Current Conditions://' -e 's/<br \/>//' -e 's/<b>//' -e 's/<\/b>//' -e 's/<BR \/>//' -e 's/[A-Z a-z]*, //' -e 's/\(.*\) F/\1 °F/' -e 's/\(.*\) C/\1 °C/' | sed 's/ //' | tail -n1

The Next day Forecast, Use this script:

curl "http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/forecastrss?p=YOURCITYCODE&u=c" | grep -e "Forecast:" -A 2 | tail -n 2 | sed -e 's/<br \/>//' -e 's/<BR \/>//' | sed "s/\(.*\)\.\ \(.*\)/\1\?\2/" | tr "?" "\n" | sed "s/Hi\:\ \(.*\)\ Lo\:\ \(.*\)/\?Hi\: \1\  Lo\:\ \2/" | sed "s/\?\(.*\)/\\1/"

Again use the city code in place of YOURCITYCODE within each of the above scripts

To get the image for the weather for your city, Use this script:

curl --silent "WEATHER URL FROM YAHOO/" | grep "forecast-icon" | sed "s/.*background\:url(\'\(.*\)\')\;\ _background.*/\1/" | xargs curl --silent -o /tmp/weather.png\

Paste the URL you saved of your city's weather in place of " WEATHER URL FROM YAHOO" The geeklet will be blank after you’ve done, but don't worry that’s normal.

To get the image to show up on your desktop use this script:

file:///tmp/weather.png

Now it's just a matter of placing everything the way you like it. Don't forget you can change the font style and sizes to whatever you prefer.

Once you've done that you just need to overlay the numbers with a set of separators to really finish it off.


You can download it from here

All you need to do with this is place it on your desktop as an image command in the same way you did with the background image. Only, for THIS image you have to do it twice using the same Separator image and place it over both the Hour and minute numbers. This gives the numbers a bit of shine and depth to really top it of.

Just wanted to say a big thank you to everyone in this thread. I couldn’t have done any of it without the scripts you clever people have so generously shared.

I hope you find this guide useful

Jai.

[MacDawg]

Originally Posted by jck1634

You can download it from here

Exellent guide!
But your link is giving a 403 access error

Woof, Woof - Dawg

[jck1634]

Thanks! I've fixed the links.

[MacDawg]

Originally Posted by jck1634

Thanks! I've fixed the links.

Got it!
Thanks again!

Woof, Woof - Dawg

[creator2456]

Originally Posted by jck1634

I hope you find this guide useful

Jai.

You can us this for the date all in one line.

date +'%A, %b. %d'

Probably want to set it to right align as well. That way when the length changes it 'pushes' to the center of the graphic and not out of the border.

[jck1634]

Thanks for that! I've updated the guide!

[codymac]

In order to the get the forecast as it appears in jck1634's post, I did this:

curl --silent "http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?p=YOURCITYCODE&u=f" | grep -e "Forecast:" -A 2 | tail -n 2 | sed -e 's/<br \/>//' -e 's/<BR \/>//' | sed "s/\(.*\)\.\ \(.*\)/\1\?\2/" | tr "?" "\n" | sed "s/\?\(.*\)/\\1/"

replace YOURCITYCODE with your actual city code and the "f" at the end of the URL with a "c" if you prefer.

[Redfish123]

I am having an issue with the top command in geektool v3 RC5. I am running snow leopard 10.6.2. My main problem is that when I run my command:

top -n 20 -l 1 | cut -c 1-28 | tail -21

The PID for top, cut, and tail each increase by a few each time it updates. the PID for Top might be 4015 but later in the day it is like 51450. If I change the refresh time this doesn't happen so fast, but I was wondering if there was anyway to run top through geektool where it is constantly updating like running it from the terminal. If I run it in the terminal the Top PID never changes vs. creating a new instance in geektool each time it refreshes.

Is there anyway to run top without this occurring?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.