Denser ASCII graph frontend like ways/fingr project

[poetaman]

It would be nice to have a denser ASCII graph front end like ways/fingr graph.no project.

% echo "San Francisco, California" | nc graph.no 79
          -= Meteogram for San Francisco, California, United States =-
 'C                                                                   Rain (mm)
 17
 16
 15
 14                                         |               ======    7 mm
 13===                                      |      =========      === 6 mm
 12   ======================================|==|===                   5 mm
 11                                         |  |                      4 mm
 10                                |  |  |  |  |           |          3 mm
  9                                |  |  |  |  |           |          2 mm
  8  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |    1 mm
   _18_19 20 21 22 23 14/03 02 03 04 05 06 07_08_09_10_11_12_13_14_15 Hour

     S  S  S  S  S  S SE SE SE SE SE SE SE SE SE SE  S  S  S  S  S  S Wind dir.
     7  7  7  6  6  5  5  5  6  6  6  6  6  7 10 12 14 14 14 14 15 15 Wind(m/s)

Legend left axis:   - Sunny   ^ Scattered   = Clouded   =V= Thunder   # Fog
Legend right axis:  | Rain    ! Sleet       * Snow
[Weather forecast from yr.no, delivered by the Norwegian Meteorological Institute and the NRK.]

Screenshot-1:

Screenshot-2:

To learn more options provided by ways/fingr graph.no. Try using with finger:

% finger @graph.no
% finger @graph.no
[graph.no]
Trying 178.255.144.27...
Weather via finger, graph.no

* Code: https://github.com/ways/fingr/
* https://nominatim.org/ is used for location lookup.
* https://www.yr.no/ is used for weather data.
* Hosted by Copyleft Solutions AS: https://copyleft.no/
* Contact: [email protected]

Usage:
    finger [email protected]

Using coordinates:
    finger 59.1,[email protected]

Using imperial units:
    finger ^[email protected]

Ask for wider output, longer forecast (~<screen width>):
    finger [email protected]

Specify another location when names conflict:
    finger "oslo, united states"@graph.no

Display "wind chill" / "feels like" temperature:
    finger ¤[email protected]

No graph, just a one-line forecast (needs improvement):
    finger o:[email protected]

Hammering will get you blacklisted. Remember the data doesn't change more than once an hour.

News:
* Launched in 2012
* 2021-05: total rewrite due to API changes. Much better location searching, proper hour-by-hour for most of the world.
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