🛜 The API Update v0.3.0-alpha

Ho Ho Ho! It's Christmas 2025, and the next release for Climafetch is out! Yay! 😊

This release focuses on streamlining the way climate data is gathered from the internet. So most of it is behind the scenes! But it should now be more reliable system.

Important

The user must now enter the desired location in GPS coordinates, or the app will default to Toledo Ohio. The location is no longer found by inxi (which uses IP address lookup)

Climafetch 0.3.0-alpha changes and additions.

• The way climate data is retrieved has been completely overhauled. inxi was the command I used before. It has now been replaced with a direct API call to Open-Metro. This is why the user must enter the GPS coords.
• Due to the limitations of Open-Metro's free service, Climafetch should only be used non-commercially and limit it's calls. Look at the important section of the README.
• I include a json file of test data. Hopefully it's helpful to for people who want to develop and test. Again, see the Build It Yourself or Contribute section of the README.
• The process and completion banner have now be implemented with basic error handling and have two ASCII animations: spinning and weather emoji.
• Timezone and elevation data has been added.
• Weather data source has been updated to Open-Metro.com
• Small formatting changes have been made to the data rows (e.g. wind row has speed first, then direction without floating parenthesis)

Here's a side-by-side comparison of interface changes:

Interface differences between 0.2.0-alpha and 0.3.0-alpha

**Old** **New**

✨️Iteration #2

Here's the main things: 📈️

• Created a simple help page that can be accessed by the -h option
• Created a version page that can be shown with the -v option

Most of the changes are under the hood. 🔨️

• Changed how the weather icons are stored and colored. Should make adding new ones much easier
• Changed internally the output format so it can be displayed more reliably.

🎉️ First Release – v0.1.0-alpha

The first alpha release of Climafetch! Now, at least folks can try it out...
Check the README for detail install and run instructions.

🎁️ What's Inside...

• Display ASCII art picture of current conditions, limited to day and night, sunny and cloudy.
• Output weather data to the right of picture

🤗️ Thanks for downloading!