FFWLD is a lightweight Perl utility that retrieves current weather observations from the WeatherLink® API and generates HTML fragments suitable for inclusion in a personal web site.

Generate current weather displays for your personal web site without exposing your WeatherLink API credentials or relying on client-side JavaScript.

Features

• Server-side HTML and JSON generation
• Optionally supports small weather badge image generation
• No JavaScript required
• WeatherLink API credentials never exposed to browsers
• Lightweight Perl implementation
• Configurable HTML and CSS
• Supports all WeatherLink console display units
• Compatible with Apache SSI, PHP include(), templates, etc.

Requirements

• Perl 5.x
• LWP::UserAgent (Debian/Ubuntu: libwww-perl, RHEL/Fedora: perl-libwww-perl)
• Imager (Debian/Ubuntu: libimager-perl, RHEL/Fedora: perl-Imager)
  (Only if optional weather badge generation is desired)
• WeatherLink API key, secret, and station ID
• A WeatherLink account with access to a station
• A web server capable of serving static HTML

Copyright, License, and Disclaimer

Copyright (C) 2026 James S. Seymour

FFWLD is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under th
e terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option)
any later version.

FFWLD is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS
FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more
details.

A copy of the GNU General Public License should be distributed with this
program. It is also available online at:

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html

Trademark Notice

WeatherLink® is a registered trademark of Davis Instruments Corporation. FFWLD is an independent, third-party utility that is neither affiliated with nor endorsed by Davis Instruments.

Important:

Each package you find at Athena has been signed with a PGP signature. You are urged to validate any package you download by checking it against its signature. You will need Jim's PGP Public Key

Source & Docs: Production Version

Production versions have been tested more thoroughly, at more sites.

There is no "Production" version at this time.

Source & Docs: Beta-Test Version

Beta versions are the result of enhancement requests and bug reports. While also believed to produce correct results (maybe even more accurate or better results—depending on the reason for the changes), they're labeled beta until I get enough feedback to let me know all's well. (Or I fail to get any negative feed-back in the form of bug-reports.)

Beta versions are thoroughly regression-tested. Deviations, if any, are noted in Changes--as are the reasons for them.

There is no "Beta" version at this time.

Source & Docs: Alpha-Test Version

Alpha versions may be initial releases or, as with Beta versions, may be the result of enhancement requests or bug reports. Compared to Beta versions: Alpha versions may not have been as thoroughly tested or regression-tested—often either because I lack the necessary raw test data or because the changes make it all-but-impossible to do so. Alpha versions may be promoted to Beta status after I've seen they've been downloaded and a time goes by without problem reports.

Be forewarned: Alpha versions may be in somewhat a state of flux, so there may be surprises.

• ffwld-0.0.3.tar.gz [http download] [ftp download]
• ffwld-0.0.3.tar.gz.asc [http download] [ftp download] (PGP signature)
• ffwld-0.0.3.tar.gz.md5 [http download] [ftp download] (MD5 signature)
• Changes [http download] [ftp download]
• FAQ [http download] [ftp download] (same as production version)

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Related Pages at Athena

My Unix Utilities page has some more stuff you might be able to use.

Comments or Questions?

Created: 8 Jul, 2026 / Last updated: 17 Jul, 2026