Ian Barton

The Google Weather API is completely undocumented. I developed this class using information that I found on the web. Since the API undocumented and unsupported by Google, it may not work for you!

You can download the source from Github and there is a small example program. I am using the program with conky to display the weather for my region. I also have a web page that displays weather conditions for various regions in Britain.

The class contains a dictionary that maps the various weather conditions returned by Google to Gnome status icons, which make it easier for Gnome users to display weather icons. The program can optionally download weather icons from Google's server, which are cached locally.

In order to avoid repeated requests to Google, weather pages are cached locally and you can set an expiry option to determine how long they are cached before a fresh page is downloaded.