Get the weather in your Speed Dial

August 20, 2010 · by Aleksander Aas

We all love the Speed Dial. There are lots of ways you can customize your Speed Dial. Let's add a weather report!

We first saw this trick over at search giant Yandex, and now BS-Harou has created an awesome solution for the rest of us.

All you need to do is take a look at the URL below. See where it says "area=Oslo"? Change Oslo to your city. You can also change the redirect location to any site by replacing "http://my.opera.com/" with your favorite URL.

Remember to right-click and select reload every 180 minutes!

http://speeddial.operacesky.net/weather.php?lang=en&area=Oslo&top=100&redirect=http://my.opera.com/

Thanks again for sharing BS-Harou!

Update

The first update is here. It now works again, and has a new feature for Fahrenheit and Celsius. For more updates subscribe to BS-Harou's blog!

My new source has only day temperature.
There is new parameter: &deg=F for °F

Readers' comments 87

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TamilFriday, August 20, 2010 3:15:25 PM
ouzowtfFriday, August 20, 2010 3:20:57 PM
SupValyaFriday, August 20, 2010 3:22:29 PM
Pure Magic
Charles SchlossFriday, August 20, 2010 3:30:44 PM

What if there is more than one city that has the same name?
selurusFriday, August 20, 2010 3:41:32 PM
Doesn't work with Opera Mini?
Martin KadlecFriday, August 20, 2010 3:44:50 PM
Originally posted by selurus:

Doesn't work with Opera Mini?

I don't think so, speed dial on Opera mobile/mini works a bit different + the speed dial windows are too small.

Originally posted by Chas4:

What if there is more than one city that has the same name?

I think that the bigger wins. Anyway it takes the data from google, so if google has some solution for this ti should work here too.
KarenFriday, August 20, 2010 3:55:09 PM
slackwrdaveFriday, August 20, 2010 4:17:57 PM
I like weather!
LucaFriday, August 20, 2010 4:31:58 PM
Really nice! xD
AvolaFriday, August 20, 2010 5:02:41 PM
Pretty cool
Ali GrotkowskiFriday, August 20, 2010 5:18:06 PM
I can't seem to get it to work, but I do like the idea.
d4rkn1ghtFriday, August 20, 2010 5:19:20 PM
LuxorFriday, August 20, 2010 5:23:29 PM
Neat!
L2D2Friday, August 20, 2010 5:37:13 PM
Got it---but how do you get the temp in Fahrenheit rather than Celsius? I have to look up a converter to know what the temp is
Martin KadlecFriday, August 20, 2010 5:48:03 PM
Originally posted by L2D2:

Got it---but how do you get the temp in Fahrenheit rather than Celsius? I have to look up a converter to know what the temp is

It's not possible yet, but it's in my to do list. Just wait few days - I hope I'll be able to do that this weekend =)
Vasudevan MFriday, August 20, 2010 5:48:24 PM
cool
Robson CordeiroFriday, August 20, 2010 5:58:51 PM
Great tip!!
Amazing!
simolaFriday, August 20, 2010 6:41:42 PM
Very nice , any more Speed dial customisations?
L2D2Friday, August 20, 2010 7:11:25 PM
Originally posted by BS-Harou:

hope I'll be able to do that this weekend =)

Thank you. That will be great. I have temp. in my Firefox speed dial. Happy to have it here.
Sam Van den VonderFriday, August 20, 2010 7:13:03 PM
Originally posted by BS-Harou:

Originally posted by L2D2:

Got it---but how do you get the temp in Fahrenheit rather than Celsius? I have to look up a converter to know what the temp is
It's not possible yet, but it's in my to do list. Just wait few days - I hope I'll be able to do that this weekend =)
Now, why does it give the temperature in farenheit in my speeddial, although my region (region sounds small, but it's actually europe) uses celsius.
Martin KadlecFriday, August 20, 2010 7:18:18 PM
I just made an update, change lang parameter to your language =)

EDIT: I changed default language to en-gb, sou you should have there Celsius again.
Martin KadlecFriday, August 20, 2010 7:32:18 PM
Originally posted by L2D2:

Thank you. That will be great. I have temp. in my Firefox speed dial. Happy to have it here.

change lang parameter to en-UK =)
Sam Van den VonderFriday, August 20, 2010 7:39:16 PM
Amazing, you're awesome!
Charles SchlossFriday, August 20, 2010 8:57:50 PM
Originally posted by BS-Harou:

I just made an update, change lang parameter to your language =)

Cool, It works
Artur „Jurgi” JurgawkaFriday, August 20, 2010 9:01:22 PM
Nice hack. http://files.myopera.com/Tamil/Smilies/Cool2.gif -
ZephirineFriday, August 20, 2010 9:12:35 PM
Very good!! http://files.myopera.com/Tamil/Smilies/Happy.gif -
HeinrichPFriday, August 20, 2010 9:26:40 PM
and as I wrote in this topic: in THIS topic, it could also be one of the things to implement in the speed dial, both as in personal bar or elsewhere.

Be creative! Have a nice weekend!
sholehin azizSaturday, August 21, 2010 12:18:08 AM
thats good..erm..who malay here??please add me..
MJerezSaturday, August 21, 2010 1:41:34 AM
Excellent!!
Plus, I haven't noticed the reload option.
YongShunSaturday, August 21, 2010 4:41:23 AM
Wow cool. !
L2D2Saturday, August 21, 2010 4:57:16 AM
Originally posted by BS-Harou:

en-UK

You mean en-US?
HokkutSaturday, August 21, 2010 5:54:17 AM
hmm... it has already done for a long time by yandex.ru

http://files.myopera.com/hokkut/files/ya.JPG

link for Oslo: http://pogoda.yandex.ru/1384/
Martin KadlecSaturday, August 21, 2010 7:36:11 AM
Originally posted by L2D2:

You mean en-US?

yes

Originally posted by hokkut:

hmm... it has already done for a long time by yandex.ru

yes, but not everybody here can speak Russian.
HyaeneLeipzigSaturday, August 21, 2010 10:23:16 AM
oooh, really nice ... thanks for this
tomasbSaturday, August 21, 2010 10:42:36 AM
So simple, that I'm supriced that someone didn't come with it earlier. actually why not have a clock or shares or even simple RSS reader. If we make speed dial more customizable - like you can change size for single item - or add a possibility to add simple widgets there... Change simple speeddial to something like costomizable homepage...
netmaniacSaturday, August 21, 2010 11:03:47 AM
nice.
AbhinavSaturday, August 21, 2010 11:04:59 AM
AvolaSaturday, August 21, 2010 11:21:28 AM
Originally posted by tomasb:

actually why not have a clock

http://onlineclock.net/ does the job, though it doesn't look that good. Maybe someone can find a better one.
+1 to more customizable speed dial
Nexus009Saturday, August 21, 2010 11:55:36 AM
HokkutSaturday, August 21, 2010 2:16:27 PM
Originally posted by BS-Harou:

yes, but not everybody here can speak Russian.

yeah, thx for weather in speed dial, its really good job!
your weather more beautiful xD
Thu HuongSaturday, August 21, 2010 2:16:54 PM
huu, khong biet theo doi thoi tiet nhu the nao nua
TanelSaturday, August 21, 2010 4:16:45 PM
Speed dial page customizable by widgets: now there's an idea for you! Complete with Opera's geo tagging, this could be awesome. For Win and Linux, at least.
commodorSaturday, August 21, 2010 8:15:18 PM
no work
Martin KadlecSaturday, August 21, 2010 8:20:55 PM
Originally posted by commodors:

no work

If you will at least a little better describe what "no work" means I might be able to help you =)
commodorSaturday, August 21, 2010 8:25:56 PM
no problem, I fixed is:)
ЕленаSaturday, August 21, 2010 9:51:30 PM
PAUL SAVELLI MONAGASSunday, August 22, 2010 1:38:58 AM
estoy tratando de familiarizarme con este nuevo sistema
saludos
PAUL SAVELLI MONAGASSunday, August 22, 2010 1:40:36 AM
es para mi mi nueva experiencia
PAUL SAVELLI MONAGASSunday, August 22, 2010 1:41:25 AM
comento desde venezuela
gallotitoSunday, August 22, 2010 3:43:21 AM
Muy bueno gracias