Weather Underground API key

cathay4t / kindle-weather

Change old kindle into weather station.

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Weather Underground API key #5

Open 1nformatica opened 6 years ago

1nformatica commented 6 years ago

Hi, now that weather underground no longer give free API keys is there another way to do this?

cathay4t commented 6 years ago

Sounds like https://openweathermap.org/api could be a good alternative. It don't require much work, just give me some time for that.

1nformatica commented 6 years ago

Hey, thanks for the quick reply. Look forward to being able to do this. I have an old kindle 3 collecting dust!

cathay4t commented 6 years ago

Openweathermap free account only gets weather forcast in 3 hours slot. You still have to pay for daily forecast. If you happen to know how to summery 8 forcasts(3 hours slot) into daily forecast, I could simply update the project to support openweathermap.com, otherwise I am afraid I may not help on this.

cathay4t commented 6 years ago

I found heweather.com provides free daily weather report. Digging.

cathay4t commented 5 years ago

weather underground just disabled my free key, now I have to find another way.

1nformatica commented 5 years ago

That's sad. I would have thought having many free projects promoting the weather underground site they would actively encourage developers to use the API. Hope you can find an alternative.

cathay4t commented 5 years ago

@1nformatica I have create a new project for this: https://github.com/cathay4t/kindle-weather-rs

In that project, I am using heweather.com which works quit well(except they only provide 3 days forecast(including today).

That project is almost finished(just need fill up the weather icons). It should be ready when I get 2+ hours personal time.

1nformatica commented 5 years ago

Hi Gris,

Thanks for keeping me informed.

Look forward to seeing the project.

Best regards,

Greg.

cathay4t commented 5 years ago

@1nformatica The code for new project is done(need some documentation): https://cathay4t.fedorapeople.org/tmp/kindle_weather.svg

It has no icons(heweather need a lot icons which I don't want to spend time on).
It contains many Chinese only information which might not help you.
It will be maintained as I use it now.
It is written in Rust.

I just noticed the darksky provides free API too. If you still want to use current python project, I may update current project to use darksky but I might not maintain it anymore.

Let me know your choice.