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Using a weather skin and it is not working? Weather.com Pulls the Plug on their XML OAL feed #75

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 8 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
This is an Informational only report.

I have been in lengthy discussions with the people at Weather.com

Due to excessive use of the XML feed and their latest tracking update for
their XML Feed.

Weather.com will officially pull the plug on the XOAP URL that weather.com
skin users currently utilize.

I am in communication to develop an amicable solution.

Please review forum posts to keep updated on this issue.
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The current consensus is to drop Weather.com for AccuWeather.com, but my
immediate concern is for the thousands of Rainmeter users that are about to
get an un-usable skin.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by evmckay on 7 Jul 2009 at 11:26

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
First of all, Before to XOAP is service for a registered user, and the ID and 
the key
was needed for REGULAR use. However, even if it did not add these parameters, 
it was
working until now. In other words, we should know that we have used XOAP without
permission.

Now, We do not need to persist in API like XOAP. Although API is convenient, 
there is
much rules. so if we think comprehensively it may be wiser to use general RSS as
source rather.

Anyway, because such a trouble will not occur in the future, the skin builder
(especially, official skin) should select generality and a high permanent 
source.
As an official site, I think that we should not present the user a lot of 
weather
information sources. Because the correction work according to the change of the
specification of the weather site increases. The weather site that an official 
site
adopts is enough by the best one site. It is better to leave the other choices 
to
each skin builders.

Original comment by kenz0.sa...@gmail.com on 8 Jul 2009 at 6:58

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Understood and agreed.

But I will still make the attempt to restore this service.

I will be in contact with the people at Weather.com, and if a reasonable 
agreement
based on their service can be found great.
If not we still have many choices
ie. AccuWeather, Weather underground, Yahoo, and several others

Let us see where this goes.

I am under the impression that Weather.com is making a move to increase income 
via
advertising, and regulating down an old unregulated XML.

It is exactly what I would do.

If they agree great, if not, their loss

Original comment by evmckay on 8 Jul 2009 at 8:29

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

Original comment by kenz0.sa...@gmail.com on 31 Dec 2009 at 12:22