Weather Underground API key

[1nformatica]

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

[cathay4t]

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]

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

[cathay4t]

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]

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

[cathay4t]

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

[1nformatica]

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]

@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]

Hi Gris, Thanks for keeping me informed. Look forward to seeing the project. Best regards, Greg.

[cathay4t]

@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.