Integrate darksky as a weather provider

BenFradet commented 6 years ago

alexanderdean commented 6 years ago

Interesting. I swear by Dark Sky on my phone.

chuwy commented 6 years ago

Good idea. We actually can come up with a decent list of weather providers as scala-weather never meant to be OWM-specific.

BenFradet commented 6 years ago

@asoltysik this is more of an exploratory ticket to check if there are better weather providers than the one we're currently using

asoltysik commented 6 years ago

I've checked out Dark Sky docs, here is a short summary of my observations:

there is just one, less confusing, API for forecasts and history instead of separate like in OWM
you can only get data from coordinates, no built-in geocoding
there is just one endpoint - when there is no time provided it serves current weather and a week forecast; when provided time it either serves history or forecast for that date
very simple pricing model and afaik it's quite popular in weather apps

AccuWeather is also really popular, but I couldn't find an API for historical data.

BenFradet commented 6 years ago

cool, changed the title :+1:

snowplow / scala-weather