Just tried is on Snow Leopard and got an error on the -r argument so it
must be new to Lion. For non-lion users I managed to prepending the rate
command to the text using sed which worked fine:
curl -s
http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=33617
| grep -A 2 tempActual | textutil -convert txt -stdin -stdout -format
html | sed "s/^/[[rate 900]]/" | say
CB
On 9/11/11 5:43 PM, Keith Watson wrote:
Ester,
I did not know that the rate switch was not available in earlier
versions of OSX. I actually found it by…wait for it…RTFMing. <Grin>.
Doing a man on say gave me all that info. The value for the rate is in
words per minute according to the man page. Quite frankly I think they
are full of it because I set it to 1000 and was able to understand
every word. Maybe Alex tops out at around 600 or so.
Anyway, having fun playing around with all this myself. Now if only I
could get Tessa to cook me a nice dinner I would be in heaven.
Keith
On Sep 11, 2011, at 1:19 PM, Esther wrote:
Hi Keith,
I'll just add that if you want the say command in your AppleScript to
announce the temperature in another voice, you can also set that as
an argument and use any of your installed system voices (including
the InfoVox voices if you have them). For example, if you're a
French user in Snow Leopard with the InfoVox French voice you could
change the last part of that shell script to a pipe to "say -v
Alice", for example, or other valid voice on your system. It looks
as though there's an extra argument to the "say" command in Lion that
is not in Snow Leopard. Does the "r" switch allow you to specify a
speech rate? (That's not something you can do in earlier versions of
Mac OS X.)
Cheers,
Esther
On Sep 11, 2011, at 05:27, Keith Watson wrote:
All,
Like Scott said, this was an exercise in learning Apple Script and
to facilitate the request of another list member. They did not want
all the information that the weather widget gave. All they wanted
was the outside temperature. If the weather widget works for you
then by all means continue to use it and ignore this thread. I could
really give a crap if you like or dislike the way myself or others
wish to garner our information.
So with that said, I have found that there is a way to do this with
curl. Open your Apple Script editor and copy the following line into
it. With this code you do not have to install Xcode or Mac Ports.
And in the interest of full disclosure, I am also going to post the
original Mac Hints snippet in case anyone is interested in whether
or not it's going to be hotter today than yesterday. Oh and as
before, make sure you substitute 33617 with your own zip code.
*** Code starts on next line ***
*do shell script* "curl -s
http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=33617
| grep -A 2 tempActual | textutil -convert txt -stdin -stdout
-format html | say -r 400"
*** Code ends here ***
Original Mac Hints code, with a pipe to say added by me.
*** Code starts on next line. ***
*do shell script* "curl -s
http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=33617
| awk '/Today is/ || /Tomorrow is/' | textutil -convert txt -stdin
-stdout -format html | say -r 400"
*** Code ends here. ***
If you have any problems or suggestions, please don;t hesitate to
ask or criticize. I personally find that this method is slower than
the other way, but it does not require any additional installs.
Have fun.
Keith
On Sep 11, 2011, at 8:20 AM, Scott Howell wrote:
Donna, you are making the assumption that someone would always have
that widget always in focus. This may be a lot of work for you, but
the ends justifies the means. Your entitled to your opinion of
course; however, aside from the learning opportunity, you still are
assuming that this widget is always going to be in focus. FOr me I
always have the calendar available. Another point here to keep in
mind is that you cannot control the sources of the weather widget;
however, this script could conceivably be used to pull weather data
from nearly any source. In fact you could even have your own
weather station and use such a script to capture the information
from that weather station.
On Sep 11, 2011, at 8:14 AM, Donna Goodin wrote:
True, it is a learning opportunity. though to me it seems like a
lot of work just to duplicate something that already exists on the
Mac. Just my $.02.
Cheers,
donna
On Sep 11, 2011, at 8:09 AM, Scott Howell wrote:
What amazes me is that some missed the point of the script.
Ricardo points out that hitting f12 drops him on the weather
widget and that is just great; however, not everyone has that
particular item there at all times. iN fact I tend to keep the
calendar widget as the one with focus. The other point some have
missed here is the learning opportunity of how such scripts could
be very useful. Perhaps there are other ways to accomplish the
same task, but you need to look beyond this specific task and see
it for what it is and that is a learning opportunity. So, what
more do "you people want?" Not much, but a new experience in how
something simple can be used for other tasks. Of course if there
is a way to use the applications available in the OS such as curl
that would be great since it means just one less thing to load.
On Sep 11, 2011, at 7:31 AM, Donna Goodin wrote:
That was my question, too, Ricardo. Then if you VO to the right
and interact, you get a 6-day forecast. What more do people want?
Cheers,
Donna
On Sep 11, 2011, at 2:36 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote:
Hi,
You know what,
For me, when I press F12, the focus automatically falls on the
temperature and current weather condition in dash board. Isn't
that what people are pretty much looking for? Press 1 key and
get your current weather?
Ricardo Walker
rwalker...@gmail.com <mailto:rwalker...@gmail.com>
Twitter & Skype: rwalker296
www.mobileaccess.org <http://www.mobileaccess.org/>
On Sep 11, 2011, at 2:10 AM, Teresa Cochran wrote:
Thanks, Keith. That's pretty slick. I don't mind having
MacPorts, either, as there are some things I wouldn't mind
playing with in there, including the Lynx browser.
teresa
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