Weather for Alfred - Updated
Introduction
Alfred is a productivity application for Mac OS X, which aims to save you time in searching your local computer and the web. The Powerpack is a set of incredibly powerful features, built on top of the robust core of Alfred. Deeply integrated with OS X, it will make you more productive that ever!
Description
Weather for Alfred was completely rewritten. The primary source for gathering weather data before was through Gtwthr.com, another project of mine. Weather.com decided they would start charging a few hundred dollars a month for the kind of access to their API that I needed and I wasn’t going to pay that, so Gtwthr got scrapped (for now?). So, I rewrote the weather extension using Yahoo as the weather data source. I added a few new little data elements into it. The icon is still dynamic. I added a few new little things though. You can new search for your weather location id in the extension. This makes it really easy to find your location id for Yahoo. Also, you can set a default location, but then you can also specify a location as well. Let’s check out the commands.
UPDATED Nov 23:
In the previous release I completely forgot about having the ability to set a temperature unit. My bad guys. The extension has been updated to version 1.5 now and has the ability to set a default location and temp unit. Check the changelog for other stuff.
How to use
Weather for Alfred’s commands are pretty simple and self explanatory. Here they are:
- weather <location id> - Displays weather data for the provided location
- weather search <location> - Search for your location id
- weather location <location id> - Set the default location
- weather unit <unit> - Set default temp unit (f or c)
- weather - (Req. Alfred 1.0 or newer), Displays weather for the default location
- weather about - About the extension
- weather help - Display the help menu
- weather version - Display the current version of the extension
- weather changelog - Display the changelog
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More Extensions
For more of my extensions and many others, check out the new Alfred Support site.
