This is fantastic! I wasted hours of my life yesterday trying to figure out the weather image. Once I figure this out it worked perfectly. I'm wondering if there's any way to add the barometric pressure to the current conditions??? I tried looking at the code, but couldn't understand any of it. :) Thanks for this script!

Oddly, everything is working for me but the forecast. Anybody else using this with ML? Wonder if that's broken it.

@Jay and @ Brett. This is great!, only one thing I could't manage is to define mycity=location. Where should I place this? And what about the first code mycity = 'City, Sate......"
Thanks everyone!

Then I get the following return:
ruby 1.8.7 (2011-12-28 patchlevel 357) [universal-darwin11.0]

I'm having the same problem as above! Everything works except for the current weather. When I run this command: /Users/nickthomas/Documents/Geektools/WeatherIcons/weatherparser.rb

I get this:

/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/ftools.rb:59:in stat': No such file or directory - /Users/nickthomas/Documents/Geektools/WeatherIcons/weatherparser.rb forecast/unknown.png (Errno::ENOENT)
from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/ftools.rb:59:insyscopy'
from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/ftools.rb:89:in copy'
from /Users/nickthomas/Documents/Geektools/WeatherIcons/weatherparser.rb:52:inset_icon'
from /Users/nickthomas/Documents/Geektools/WeatherIcons/weatherparser.rb:41:in `current'
from /Users/nickthomas/Documents/Geektools/WeatherIcons/weatherparser.rb:90

When I add "forecast" or "time", everything is just fine!

The icon doesn't seem to change depending on the weather or time. Just stays as weathericon.png

Tried playing with different file path formats ( ~ vs /Users etc) in both the geeklet path and .rb config path, played with adding "cloudy" as mentioned in the post to force the image to change, but I get nothing. Just stays the same.

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

Not sure what I'm doing wrong. It's basically stuck on cloudy though it is not cloudy according to the real weather or wunderground.com. Is there a need to have another shell running the weatherparser.rb? Very confused. Also this: http://imgur.com/6n9DW

This is great! I have loved using this, one issue though is the pictures just rotate through and don't match the forecast as @Chi Vu has commented about. Here is a screenshot of me using it. :) I would appreciate why the image is not working. http://www.flickr.com/photo...

This is by far the best weather geeklet I've come across. I've managed to configure the current weather condition via the comments, but for some reason, the icon doesn't match up to the forecast. Instead, it just rotates through the different pictures based on the intervals I set. Is this because of my image geeklet or is it due to the ruby coding? Any ideas would be appreciated!!

I am also having problems with the 'current' command. Below please find the output when running the command from terminal:

/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/ftools.rb:59:in stat': No such file or directory - /Users/username/Users/username/Documents/Geeklets/WeatherIcons/unknown.png (Errno::ENOENT)
from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/ftools.rb:59:insyscopy'
from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/ftools.rb:89:in copy'
from weatherparser.rb:52:inset_icon'
from weatherparser.rb:41:in `current'
from weatherparser.rb:84

Everything works great for me except the current as well. My full path is "/Users/holscherct/Documents/geektool/weather/weatherparser.rb current". The forecast and icons work but the current does not and I don't know why. Any suggestions?
Running Lion 10.7.2 and Geektool from MAS downloaded today.

I am having the same issue as John from Dec 20th. All works fine except the current conditions.

I have gotten everything to work except for the current geeklet, my command is set to "/Users/WeatherIcons/weatherparser.rb current" I have my WeatherIcons folder directly in my users folder. I used the same command except instead of current, I have either forecast or time for the other two geeklets and they work perfectly. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I added the following location code to call instead of hardcoding mycity (mycity = location). It converts your IP address to the city of your IP host. It's close enough for the weather. Now when I travel I always get local weather.

def location
  response = Net::HTTP.get_response(URI.parse(URI.escape("http://api.hostip.info/get_xml.php?")))
  doc = REXML::Document.new(response.body)
  features = doc.root.elements[4]
  hostip = features.elements[1]
  city = hostip.elements[2].text
  return city
end

I'm having an issue getting this to work. I enter in the path to the specific folder like this: /Users/***********/WeatherIcons/ with the last part being the specific command in each shell and I get the failure icon on all 3. Any Idea as to what I am doing wrong?

Here are the pics. Adding/removing geektool on the menu bar did nothing though.

Hey Brett! Is there any way to make my Geeklets disappear whenever I use Mission Control?

The icons don't seem to display correctly according to time of day. I haven't really ever messed with Ruby, but I see that you have it set from 19:00 to 08:00 to show the "nighttime_icons" version of the icons. This doesn't seem to work quite right. Do I have to set a timezone some where in the weatherparser.rb file? I have my zipcode set already.

My desktop icons seem to go under my geeklets, how can bring them to be over the geeklets...is that possible?

Thanks for sharing these. They're almost idiot-proof, but it took me a minute to realize I needed to put "ruby" before the path in the "Command" field.

I love this. I'm quite glad to stop using the different menu bar apps for the weather. With this, I can get current and forecast weather right on my desktop in an nice format.

Do you have a recommendation for a fog icon? I just ran across fog and the parser pulled the unknown icon. Cloudy kind of works, but isn't quite right.

Really nice Geeklet. Thanks for sharing!

How do the fonts in the screenshot look so good? When I set this up the anti-aliasing looks terrible.

(I'm using Helvetica Neue btw).

First let me say: This is the best weather applet I have seen. Period.
But then: The "current" doesn't seem to work with my city (Bonn, Germany). Have they changed anything at weatherunderground?

Thanks a million!

Is there a way for the calls to Weather Underground to use the system proxy settings? My laptop moves between work and home and while at work I'm behind a proxy. I'm sure I could modify the calls to use a proxy but a more elegant solution would be for it to just look at the system proxy settings and thus use a proxy if one's configured.

Thanks!

I created a site a while back that makes grabbing weather info for GeekTool really easy. It's gtwthr.com. It performs basically the same task as your script, but runs remotely. You would simply create a shell script geeklet and set the command to curl a url. The url consists of the location id and the data element you want. It also works with icons.

Are you a Geektool user? Geeklets: weather and forecast. Good stuff. http://j.mp/qlLu1C

Nice geeklet! To make it run under Ruby 1.9.x, I changed require 'ftools' to require 'fileutils', and the File.copy... calls to FileUtils.cp.... FTools is deprecated in Ruby 1.9.

Y'know, Brett, keeping up with you is becoming a pain in the ass. I decided to use NerdTool rather than GeekTool on the strength of this post of yours from back in February. NerdTool just became Lion compatible a couple of weeks ago, and now I'm wondering if I should switch back to GeekTool.

Seriously, I'd like to hear what you see as the strengths and weaknesses of GT and NT and why you've chosen one over the other.