This has been going on for at least a week. The data does exist, because you can see it when viewing these locations on the Wunder website, it's just not being returned by the API. I know this used to work fine over the last several years and just stopped recently.
I'm seeing similar questions with no response so I guess this is a "user" forum and no one from Weather Underground is actually going to read this? I sure hope I'm wrong!
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Thanks for your fast reply. I've since discovered that some locations do include this information but most pws: locations near me no longer do. In the past it seemed like most of them did. The one I was using for the last year had the info until recently and no longer does. I found another pws near me that has this info, but I'm wondering what if anything has changed. Why do most pws locations not have this info any more?
It may also be of interest to someone at Weather Underground to know that it is not possible to post to this forum using Google's browser Chrome. I've tried on multiple computers and I always have to switch to internet explorer in order to be able to log in and post.
Brendan Hayes, Official Rep
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The locations related to PWS is what we are investigating. The city update shouldn't have made so issues, and we are investigating them all.
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If you do it one by one, it's not going to work. I estimate that 5-10% of the sites have these issues, so the number in the thousands.
You could easy write a simple script that pulls data from all of the locations in your database to flag the ones which are returning invalid/missing data.
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The pws that worked for me yesterday:
http://api.wunderground.com/api/MyApiKeyHere/conditions/lang:en/q/pws:IQCSAINT96.json
is now returning
"weather":"",
...
"icon":"cloudy",
So clearly there are several problems on your end.
1: many pws do not return the expected info when queried.
2: sometimes a certain pws will return the info and some days it won't.
3: sometimes the data is there for the icon, so it should also be available for the "weather" field
Here are just a few more of the many pws in my area that either return "" or "unkown" for weather and/or icon (today):
pws:IQUBECSA89
pws:IQCSAINT54
pws:IQUBECSA89
basically almost all of them in my region are failing. You can find more stations with the problem by going to https://www.wunderground.com/?MR=1 and looking at station in rural Quebec. I have not personally looked at other parts of the country so I do not know if the problem is nationwide or not.
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Getting 'unknown.gif' and '.gif' respectively.
https://api.wunderground.com/api/<API KEY>/forecast/conditions/astronomy/hourly/almanac/lang:...
https://api.wunderground.com/api/<API KEY>/forecast/conditions/astronomy/hourly/almanac/lang:...
I am also seeing the icon set on below page are not getting displayed because mixed content issue.
https://www.wunderground.com/weather/api/d/docs?d=resources/icon-sets&MR=1
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This has been broken for almost a month now. Most of us here are developing software and realize what a big bug this is and are rightly concerned at how long this has been unfixed. I am worried what this means for the future of the Wunderground API; if something that is relied upon so heavily by apps and weather enthusiasts can go unfixed for so long, is there *any* dedication to your developer community? This is even broken on your *own front-end!*
Baffling.
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This appears to be the case in the response files (xml and json), but also in the WeatherUnderground app, Android and iOS.
The funny thing though is that if I pick a different pws nearby (6 miles away) the app suddenly has all data. Back to my closest pws and no weather condition and icon again.
Didn't used to happen the last few years with that pws.
Eric Drooff