waybar-weather2

A substantially modified version of waybar-weather: a simple weather module for Waybar based on data from OpenWeatherMap.

Usage

Initial Steps

1. Install uv.
2. Obtain a valid API key from the OpenWeatherMap One Call API 3.0. You will be asked for a credit card, but with 1000 API calls per day for free and a reasonable interval set for the widget, being charged for use is highly unlikely.
3. Set an environment variable called OPEN_WEATHER_API_KEY to your API key.
4. Set environment variables LATITUDE and LONGITUDE to your desired values.

Waybar Integration

To integrate the weather widget with Waybar, create a custom module:

"custom/weather": {
  "exec": "~/.config/waybar/weather.py",
  "restart-interval": 900,
  "return-type": "json",
},

Remember to change the path to the weather.py script specified within the exec field.

Then, include the custom/weather module in your desired module list.

By default, the module will display the current weather category and temperature in the bar. When hovering the mouse over the widget, a tooltip will pop up with detailed information about the current weather and a forecast for the next week.

The colors used within the widget and tooltip may be changed in the weather.py script in order to match your colorscheme.

Acknowledgment

Many thanks to thetek for writing a clear and comprehensible script, which served as a fantastic starting point for this project. The colorization via pango markup and ANSI escape codes and the human-readable wind direction code -- that is, the good looks of this project -- are all taken from the original script linked to above. The same is true of much of the documentation.