Comment on Why are weather apps so bad at telling you the current weather?

• Curious_Canid@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨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.

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  • juststoppingby@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Just putting it out there, but the National Weather Service has a free API here.

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    • Curious_Canid@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨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.

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  • sramder@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    LOL. Thanks for your service. I think you should let yourself off with time served ;-)

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    • Curious_Canid@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I appreciate that. :-D

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  • brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You wouldn’t scrape WUnderground

    😉

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  • solrize@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨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.

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    • Curious_Canid@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      NWS is a great resource, but there are a startling number of other organizations that collect weather data.

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