Command-line tool and TypeScript library

`dwd`

Query Germany’s official weather warnings, station forecasts, and crowd reports from your terminal. dwd is a small command-line tool over the open DWD Warnwetter app API operated by the Deutscher Wetterdienst — no account, no API key, just data.

Version 0.0.8 npm GitHub API reference

Install

Needs Node.js 20 or newer. Installs the dwd command:

npm i -g @maschinenlesbar.org/dwd-cli

Access

No account, no API key, no configuration — install and query.

Quick start

dwd warnings nowcast

Commands

station-overview

Forecasts/observations for one or more DWD station ids
crowd

Crowd-sourced weather reports overview
warnings

Published warning feeds (pass --lang de|en to a subcommand, default de)

All commands, arguments and options →

Claude Code skills

The dwd plugin teaches Claude to use dwd. Install it from the maschinenlesbar.org marketplace:

/plugin marketplace add maschinenlesbar-org/plugins
/plugin install dwd@maschinenlesbar

/dwd:dwd-crowd-check
/dwd:dwd-station-forecast
/dwd:dwd-warning-briefing
/dwd:dwd-warning-map

What the skills answer, with real examples → Skill descriptions and requirements →

TypeScript library

@maschinenlesbar.org/dwd-cli is also a typed API client you can import in your own code, with no runtime HTTP dependencies.

API reference → Library usage and architecture →

The tool, not the data

The data comes from the provider behind the API, under its own terms — see DATA_LICENSE.md. The code is dual-licensed AGPL-3.0-or-later or commercial — see LICENSING.md.