Weather widget nor working "connection error"

[Dutchglory]

Windows 1o Pro 1803 Weather widget nor working "connection error" ... other weather widgets work fine

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[patzip]

same problem for me for the past several hours

[MrFobwatch]

I've determined the issue is with Yahoo's YQL service but I don't know what else to do. Hopefully someone else more knowledgeable can change the data source.

[patzip]

Starting working a few mins ago... 8pm Eastern USA

[Dutchglory]

works for to again, i guess YQL service working again... :)

[FabioZumbi12]

Not working here :( But seems be other problem.

[jeffaust]

It's gone again. The server it uses is not responding to pings. https://query.yahooapis.com/

[F1r3f0x]

It's because the service has been retired https://developer.yahoo.com/yql/

[MirceaMx]

@F1r3f0x First: 👍 Thanks for letting us know. Second: Is there anything we can do?

[Luke717]

Glad I came across this thread. Today I had the connection error message for the first time, now I understand why. I found a discussion on the Rainmaker forum https://forum.rainmeter.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=30807 that has some fix suggestions. Lots of trial and error I think. What about the Yahoo suggestion re a new API endpoint?

[sixorbs]

This has happened to me as well. Would be great if there was a fix for this since the Yahoo service has been retired.

[Shrekmachine]

same here, not working since 2 days

[GrAsShOpPeR2K]

Same here.

[kael070]

Same here, I love the looks of Win10Widgets, anyone have a fix? I found fixes for enigma but can't get them to work

[Toby-Broom]

The developer would need to contact Yahoo for API credentials to continue using the Yahoo service. Since Kaelri's skin used a separate Yahoo file with the code in it wasn't so hard to make a drop in replacement. For this skin it's needs some reverse engineering to switch over to weather.com

[Dutchglory]

Win 10 Widgets on Github: https://github.com/tjmarkham/win10widgets/issues/120

Important EOL Notice: As of Thursday, Jan. 3, 2019, the YQL service at query.yahooapis.com will be retired. This will impact users of datatables.org as well as developers who creates features using this YQL service. To continue using our free Yahoo Weather APIs, use https://weather-ydn-yql.media.yahoo.com/forecastrss as your new API endpoint. Contact yahoo-weather-ydn-api@oath.com for credentials to onboard to this free Yahoo Weather API service. Other YQL based services that use query.yahooapis.com will no longer operate.

Good alternatives to implement:

• https://www.wunderground.com
• https://openweathermap.org https://rapidapi.com/community/api/open-weather-map (API Page)
• https://darksky.net/forecast https://rapidapi.com/zakutynsky/api/Darksky (API Page)
• https://www.apixu.com/weather
• https://www.yahoo.com/news/weather
• https://rapidapi.com/stefan.skliarov/api/AccuWeather (AccuWeather API)

Recources: https://blog.rapidapi.com/access-global-weather-data-with-these-weather-apis/ see more at bottom of page..

[Crsmsg]

Say Thanks to Eclectic-Tech (John Moran)

[patzip]

Thank you John, thank you, thank you!!!

[MirceaMx]

I second that "Thank you John, thank you, thank you!!!"

[JeffGillman]

Many thanks, John! Lots of other good stuff there, everyone: https://www.deviantart.com/eclectic-tech/gallery/

[kael070]

Thanks jhon, you are the mvp

[GrAsShOpPeR2K]

Did it go down for anyone again? I am getting connection error on the new one too

[MirceaMx]

Nope. Not down. You must have done something wrong.

[Luke717]

Echoing all other comments - thank you, John! Only issue for me is that auto-location doesn't work: shows incorrect location (by about 4K miles!); if I tell it to use auto-location, I get a connection error. Setting location manually seems to work just fine even though it doesn't show my exact location but close enough.

In any case, I'm very happy with what you've done so thank you for developing this.

[jeffaust]

Thanks, John (eclectic-tech)!

[akenshin]

Thanks, John!