Re: Weather Underground API

Michael J Rubinsky <[email protected]> Sun, 17 Mar 2019 19:03:45 +0000
Newsgroups	gmane.comp.horde.user
Message-ID	<20190317190345.Horde.WpJYMCsMH7cOcrfXcKKrwEy@tarn.theupstairsroom.com>
Quoting Michael J Rubinsky <[email protected]>:

> Quoting Arjen de Korte <[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.
>
> Yeah, we actually already have an older Owm driver in  
> Horde_Service_Weather, but it, too, is outdated. I'll probably try  
> to get that one at least minimally working, as well as the existing  
> WWO driver, since the subscription price on that one is cheap. I was  
> also looking at darksky.net as an option.

Ah. Now I remember why I never added that driver to the Horde config  
as an option. There is no way to search a location using that API. You  
need to either know the "id" of the city you are looking for (they  
have a list of id => city mappings you can download), or basically  
hope that the results you get are for the city you typed in, when the  
city name is not unique for your country. To make matters worse, the  
results from the API only give back the city name and lat/long, not  
the city/state/province etc... so you don't even know you are may be  
looking at the wrong city if you don't use their ID.

Looks like we'll need some Horde_Map geocoding to go along with this.



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