BBC Weather API tools

Retrieves the current and forecasted weather from the BBC Weather APIs

wx

wx is a command line tool for displaying the current weather from your nearest observation station and the forecasted weather for the next 14 days. Uses the BBC weather APIs for the source of information.

go install github.com/codehex/bbcweather/cmd/wx@latest

Locations can be in the form of

• The name of the location, city or region
• The first part of the post code
• Longitude and latitude
• The location ID (see Geonames dataset for more details on location IDs, data dump is here) e.g.

wx Edinburgh Airport     # By specific location
wx New York              # By city or town
wx Lake District         # By region
wx Switzerland           # By country
wx SW19                  # By postcode (e.g. Wimbeldon)
wx 48.8566,2.3522        # By longitude and latitude (e.g. Paris)
wx 2993458               # By location ID (e.g. Monaco - https://www.geonames.org/2993458)

A preset location can be used by setting the WX_QUERY env variable

export WX_QUERY=Paris
wx

Here's an example of a weather report