Weather Machine – Rock solid weather APIs with zero hassle

Re:Weather Machine – Rock solid weather APIs with zero hassle by applgo443 on Friday January 27, 2023 @07:03PM (#34553510)

Why are there so many weather APIs? What's going on here?

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Re:Weather Machine – Rock solid weather APIs with zero hassle by Zafira on Friday January 27, 2023 @08:11PM (#34554025)

I believe this burst of attention at weather APIs is from the impending shutdown of the Dark Sky API.

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Re:Weather Machine – Rock solid weather APIs with zero hassle by hbcondo714 on Friday January 27, 2023 @10:31PM (#34554855)

Is there a public authoritative weather data source all these weather APIs get there data from? Similar to how SEC.gov[1] is for financial disclosure data?

[1] https://www.sec.gov/os/accessing-edgar-data

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Re:Weather Machine – Rock solid weather APIs with zero hassle by djleni on Friday January 27, 2023 @11:04PM (#34555005)

The NWS provides a lot of this, although maybe not all:

https://www.weather.gov/documentation/services-web-api

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Re:Weather Machine – Rock solid weather APIs with zero hassle by c0nfused on Friday January 27, 2023 @11:58PM (#34555295)

Thanks for this, just spent a week playing with their older xml api and that looks really developer friendly in comparison.

Older api: https://graphical.weather.gov/xml/

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Re:Weather Machine – Rock solid weather APIs with zero hassle by calsy on Sunday January 29, 2023 @07:04PM (#34574166)

Around the world, weather observation and data collection is in most cases a public service provided by the government. The accessible data weather bureau's provide is also unique and country specific.

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Re:Weather Machine – Rock solid weather APIs with zero hassle by calsy on Friday January 27, 2023 @11:41PM (#34555221)

Well theres lots of weather isn't there.

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