AccuWeather to discontinue free access to Core Weather API

Re:AccuWeather to discontinue free access to Core Weather API by dyeje on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @03:47PM (#44663196)

I imagine there is a lot of new pressure on public APIs now that there’s an explosion of vibe coded projects accessing them (some probably quite haphazardly).

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Re:AccuWeather to discontinue free access to Core Weather API by pmdr on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @03:59PM (#44663330)

It's probably just good old-fashioned greed. Worked for X and Reddit, why wouldn't it work for them?

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Re:AccuWeather to discontinue free access to Core Weather API by dyeje on Sunday July 27, 2025 @12:48PM (#44702596)

I wasn’t justifying the move, just a related thought that came up after seeing a few articles about Neon and Supabase having an explosion of new apps.

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Re:AccuWeather to discontinue free access to Core Weather API by 0x457 on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @04:16PM (#44663510)

Uhm, having a weather api is probably the easiest thing to implement because of how catchable it is. Any public api accidental can be prevented by tiered rate-limiting:

- uber low limits for anon access

- low, but reasonable for register free users

- Up-to-you for paid users

You might say: well, proxies are cheaper than paid plan, and solution to that - charge reasonable price.

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Re:AccuWeather to discontinue free access to Core Weather API by sitzkrieg on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @04:19PM (#44663545)

you should see what happened when people finally understood XMLHttpRequest!

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