diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index dec3b12..ec44654 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,11 +1,10 @@ -wttr.in — the right way to check the weather. +*wttr.in — the right way to check the weather.* -wttr.in is a console oriented weather forecast service, that supports various information representation -like terminal oriented ANSI-sequences for the console HTTP clients such as curl, httpie or wget; -HTML for web browsers; or PNG for graphical viewers. - -wttr.in uses [wego](http://github.com/schachmat/wego) to visualize weather forecast information -and various weather data sources. +wttr.in is a console oriented weather forecast service, that supports various information representation methods +like terminal oriented ANSI-sequences for console HTTP clients such as curl, httpie or wget; +HTML for web browsers; or PNG for graphical viewers. +wttr.in uses [wego](http://github.com/schachmat/wego) for visualization +and various data sources for weather forecast information. You can check it at [wttr.in](http://wttr.in). @@ -29,7 +28,7 @@ That is how the actual weather report for your location looks like (it is live!) You can specify the location, for that you want to get the weather information. -If you omit the location name, you will get the information for you current location, +If you omit the location name, you will get the information for your current location, based on your IP address. $ curl wttr.in/London @@ -51,31 +50,41 @@ To get detailed information online, you can access the [/:help](http://wttr.in/: $ curl wttr.in/:help +## Additional options + +By default the USCS units are used for the queries from the USA and the +metric system for the rest for the world. +You can override this behavior with the following options: + + $ curl wttr.in/Amsterdam?u + $ curl wttr.in/Amsterdam?m + ## Special pages -wttr.in can be used not only to check the wheather, but some other purposes also: +wttr.in can be used not only to check the wheather, but for some other purposes also: $ curl wttr.in/Moon -To see the current Moon phase (uses [pyphoon](https://github.com/chubin/pyphoon) as the backend). +To see the current Moon phase (uses [pyphoon](https://github.com/chubin/pyphoon) as its backend). $ curl wttr.in/Moon@2016-12-25 -To the Moon phase for the specified date (2016-12-25). +To see the Moon phase for the specified date (2016-12-25). ## Translations wttr.in is currently translated in more than 30 languages. -The preferred language is detected automatically basing on the query headers (Accept-Language) -which is automatically set by the browser or can be set in curl using the -H key ("-H Accept-Language: fr"). +The preferred language is detected automatically basing on the query headers (`Accept-Language`) +which is automatically set by the browser or can be set explicitly using command line options +in console clients (for example: `curl -H "Accept-Language: fr"`). The preferred language can be forced using the `lang` option: $ curl wttr.in/Berlin?lang=de See [/:translation](http://wttr.in/:translation) to learn more about the translation process, -to see the list of the supported languages, or if you want to help to translate wttr.in in your language. +to see the list of the supported languages, or to know how you can help to translate wttr.in in your language. ## Installation