Re: Weather Underground API

Arjen de Korte <[email protected]> Sun, 17 Mar 2019 08:41:58 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.horde.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Citeren Michael J Rubinsky <[email protected]>:

> Quoting Arjen de Korte <[email protected]>:
>
>> If you've used the Weather Underground API for displaying weather  
>> info and wonder why it no longer works:
>>
>>     
>> https://apicommunity.wunderground.com/weatherapi/topics/end-of-feb-wu-api-update
>>
>> There doesn't seem to be an option for a free API key anymore, so  
>> this probably needs an update in the the Horde configuration as well.
>
> Ugh. We should just remove support for WU completely. It's not only  
> no longer free, but it's completely gone. Replaced by a completely  
> different API specifically for owners of personal weather stations,  
> with less focus on forecasting. The non-free API is the parent  
> company's, The Weather Company, expensive subscription service. Not  
> a fit for Horde. Either way, the existing WU driver is useless.
>
> Looks like the other driver I wrote for World Weather Online has  
> also done away with their free service.
>
> Looks like it's time to once again change out Horde's weather  
> service drivers. Sigh.

https://openweathermap.org/ might be an option. They have free API  
keys with reasonable limits.

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