Nice. Glad to hear that you got a work around going. I am playing with removing the say part of that string and setting all that up as variables in the Apple Script itself. Seems to run a little faster.
Keith On Sep 12, 2011, at 5:00 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: > 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 >>>>>>>>> Twitter & Skype: rwalker296 >>>>>>>>> www.mobileaccess.org >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> On Sep 11, 2011, at 2:10 AM, Teresa Cochran wrote: >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Thanks, Keith. That's pretty slick. 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