Apple butchered the integration. I fucking hate the stock iOS weather app 😤🤬
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friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 3 months agoApple bought darksky, and Apple Weather now has that feature that notifies you before it rains.
c0smokram3r@midwest.social 3 months ago
solrize@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Apple bought darksky
OMG I had no idea. Ouch.
Curious_Canid@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Oh, yeah. Not only did they take it away from all Android users, they also killed the API that let other apps access it. I wrote an open-source tool that made Dark Sky data available to Wear OS watch faces. It worked beautifully for several years, until Apple killed it.
The worst of it is that was my second attempt. An earlier version of the same tool worked with Weather Underground data. Then IBM bought it, changed the API completely, and priced it so that only business could afford it.
I haven’t had the heart to try a third time.
juststoppingby@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Curious_Canid@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
I appreciate the suggestion. I have thought about it, but part of what I wanted, like the original poster, was more localized information. NWS is great for overall data, but it doesn’t get down to precise locations.
sramder@lemmy.world 3 months ago
LOL. Thanks for your service. I think you should let yourself off with time served ;-)
Curious_Canid@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
I appreciate that. :-D
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
You wouldn’t scrape WUnderground
😉
solrize@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Does most weather data in the US ultimately come from weather.gov? No idea about API but maybe it can be scraped from the web.
Curious_Canid@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
NWS is a great resource, but there are a startling number of other organizations that collect weather data.
linearchaos@lemmy.world 3 months ago
yeah, i don’t run apple so they don’t exist for me anymore.
friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 3 months ago
That sucks. It is so frustrating when large companies shut down widely used public APIs.
Talaraine@fedia.io 3 months ago
I can't really describe to you how angry I was when that shit went through. Like... I knew it was ridiculous to get so angry but, I LOVED THAT FREAKING APP.