macOS
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Weather in your terminal, with ANSI colors and Unicode symbols. Version 1.19.0 via Homebrew; verified from local package data.
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Linux
Debian aptverified · 92%
sudo apt install ansiweatherDebian stable package indexes · ansiweather · source: deb.debian.org
overview
Package summary
Weather in your terminal, with ANSI colors and Unicode symbols
Project links
Commands and aliases
- ansiweather
history
Project history and usage
AnsiWeather is a POSIX shell script that displays current weather and forecasts in a terminal using ANSI colors and optional Unicode symbols. It fetches data from the OpenWeatherMap API and formats it with small Unix dependencies such as curl or wget, jq, and bc.
Project history
The official changelog records AnsiWeather 1.00 as the initial release on 19 October 2013. Early releases added configuration files, automatic location support, wind and forecast display, daylight data, and then removed or tightened automatic behavior as API and portability needs changed.
By 2015, AnsiWeather had moved toward explicit user configuration: OpenWeatherMap API key support was added, automatic location helper behavior was removed, and the default location was changed. Later releases focused on shell portability, HTTPS API calls, delimiter changes, XDG-related configuration behavior, and display options such as UV index and feels-like temperature.
Adoption history
The README lists packages for OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD, Debian, Ubuntu, Homebrew, Haiku, and Gentoo. That package spread reflects a tool that fits neatly into Unix package systems: one script, common dependencies, a man-page-like README, and no daemon.
AnsiWeather is adopted mostly as a terminal utility rather than as a library. Its users are shell prompt tinkerers, status bar authors, and people who want weather output scriptable enough for cron, tmux, screenshots, or login messages.
How it is used
Users run ansiweather with options such as -l for location, -u for unit system, -f or -F for forecast mode, -k for OpenWeatherMap API key, and toggles for colors, symbols, wind, humidity, pressure, daylight, UV index, and feels-like temperature.
The default config file is ~/.ansiweatherrc, and ANSIWEATHERRC can point to another file. Because the OpenWeatherMap API key can be supplied with -k or stored in that configuration file, the same documented path is both a configuration location and a likely credentials location.
Why package nerds care
AnsiWeather is a compact example of the packageable shell-script app: simple source, explicit external commands, readable config, distro package links, and enough API churn handling to show why tiny CLIs still need maintenance.
It also captures a familiar terminal era: colored output, Unicode symbols, curl pipelines, jq parsing, and personal status displays, all before needing a richer TUI or desktop widget.
Timeline
- 2013: AnsiWeather 1.00 initial release.
- 2015: Config file support, forecast features, daylight data, and OpenWeatherMap API key support appear.
- 2016: Plain sh portability work and BSD 2-Clause relicensing.
- 2019: Weather API calls switch to HTTPS.
- 2020: Config delimiter behavior changes and parsing portability improves.
- 2021: Feels-like temperature display is added.
- 2023: AnsiWeather 1.19.0 refines examples, config sample, and locale handling.
Related projects
- OpenWeatherMap provides the weather API used by AnsiWeather.
- jq and bc are documented runtime dependencies for JSON parsing and arithmetic.
Sources
security posture
Risk level: green
narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.
Risk classifier
green risk · low confidence · appliance
Why
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals
Signals
- metadata:no-higher-risk-signals
Install behavior
- No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
- Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 1 platform targets.
Recommended review
Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.
local files
Configuration and credential file locations
These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.
Configuration files
Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.
- Unix
~/.ansiweatherrc$ANSIWEATHERRC
Credential files
Credential-bearing paths to review before unattended agent runs.
- Unix
~/.ansiweatherrc$ANSIWEATHERRC
executables
Installed executables
| Command | Kind | Exposure | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
ansiweather | cli | global executable |
freshness
Version and freshness
These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.
page generated2026-07-07
manager version1.19.0
manager updated
local dataok
upstreamcurrent
latest detected1.19.0
https://github.com/fcambus/ansiweather
- infoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.low confidence
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | brew:ansiweather |
|---|---|
| Version | 1.19.0 |
| Package manager | Homebrew |
| Package manager page | https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/ansiweather |
| Homepage | https://github.com/fcambus/ansiweather |
| Repository | https://github.com/fcambus/ansiweather |
| Upstream docs | https://github.com/fcambus/ansiweather#readme |
| License | BSD-2-Clause |
| Source archive | https://github.com/fcambus/ansiweather/archive/refs/tags/1.19.0.tar.gz |
| Uses from macOS | bc-gh, jq |
| Bottle | available (on all) |
| Homebrew post-install | not defined |
| Service | none declared |
registry facts
Source database details
| Source Database | Homebrew formula API |
|---|---|
| Tap | homebrew/core |
| Full Name | ansiweather |
| Version Scheme | 0 |
| Revision | 0 |
| Head Version | HEAD |
| Bottle Stable Root URL | https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core |
| Deprecated | no |
| Disabled | no |
| Keg Only | no |
| URL Keys |
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source database matches
Other package-manager records
Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.
Debian apt95%
ansiweather 1.19.0-1
Weather in your terminal, with ANSI colors and Unicode symbols
https://github.com/fcambus/ansiweather
sudo apt install ansiweather- Section: utils
- Architecture: all
- 3 dependencies
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Ansiweather
Ubuntu apt95%
ansiweather 1.19.0-1
Weather in your terminal, with ANSI colors and Unicode symbols
https://github.com/fcambus/ansiweather
sudo apt install ansiweather- Section: universe/utils
- Architecture: all
- 3 dependencies
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Ansiweather
source trail
Generated from repository data
This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.
Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub.
Used sources
- Geiger risk classifier
- Nucleus package database
- av.db category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- external package-manager database matches
- package relationship graph
- package version freshness
- package-page enrichment