I got the my new API key and was able to quickly change my software to grab data from the new Conditions response. However in doing so I see that the "icon" data from the previous version of the API is no longer included in the response (per the new API docs as well as query results). I also see no way to infer an icon from the data that is provided in the Conditions response. This is a really important part of the current conditions.
E.g. right now via the old API the icon response indicates "fog" which is precisely the case. This is also the field that informs me there are thunderstorms or etc.
Is this intentional? Is there an alternative? I looked through the new API responses and couldn't find one. For my needs this is a major gap and one I find a bit baffling since icon data is provided on the forecasts.
E.g. right now via the old API the icon response indicates "fog" which is precisely the case. This is also the field that informs me there are thunderstorms or etc.
Is this intentional? Is there an alternative? I looked through the new API responses and couldn't find one. For my needs this is a major gap and one I find a bit baffling since icon data is provided on the forecasts.
Posted 8 months ago
Victoria Gardner, Official Rep
Victoria Gardner, Official Rep
Keep in mind that switching APIs might be something like switching languages: sometimes you just can't say things the way you're used to anymore. Some ideas just come out differently when I speak Russian or Uzbek. Or R.
--Victoria
--Victoria
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Hi Victoria,
You are right, maybe I have not been able to find the way.
You can indicate to me how I can obtain the current conditions of the sky (Party cloudy, clear, rain, fog, etc) by means of a request according to my geolocated position (Coordinates of Altitude and length). For the coordinates do not worry I get them through GPS and I automatically add them to the API request link.
If I can do this with the new API, in whatever form, regardless of whether it is more complex, I would be the happiest man.
Your help please.
You are right, maybe I have not been able to find the way.
You can indicate to me how I can obtain the current conditions of the sky (Party cloudy, clear, rain, fog, etc) by means of a request according to my geolocated position (Coordinates of Altitude and length). For the coordinates do not worry I get them through GPS and I automatically add them to the API request link.
If I can do this with the new API, in whatever form, regardless of whether it is more complex, I would be the happiest man.
Your help please.
Victoria Gardner, Official Rep
Elee, what you're asking me is like saying, Victoria, how do I form a sentence with a subject, verb, and object in English? When what I need to know is, what are you trying to say?
For what purpose are you trying to post this? Why not just provide a link to Wunderground? I'm missing the rationale for re-inventing the wheel, so to speak.
When I put my programmer hat on, it's to fill a need, create a solution. An abstraction has way too many possible solutions.
--Victoria
For what purpose are you trying to post this? Why not just provide a link to Wunderground? I'm missing the rationale for re-inventing the wheel, so to speak.
When I put my programmer hat on, it's to fill a need, create a solution. An abstraction has way too many possible solutions.
--Victoria
I agree with all of the comments regarding the inclusion of the icon code in the current conditions response. If one brings up the wunderground com page for their account, it shows a weather icon for their neighborhood. So why not include the icon code in the current conditions as it must be available. I would like to see a set of long and short narratives in arrays indexed by the icon code
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Ron
New API I'm referring to:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KGb8bTVYRsNgljnNH67AMhckY8AQT2FVwZ9urj8SWBs/edit
Victoria Gardner, Official Rep
If I understand you correctly, you want the new API to generate from the data it provides some range of extant conditions similar to what the forecast provides. So X humidity with Y change in temperature would suggest that you have fog, etc.
But that's kind of complicated. So I was looking for a quick fix in a short-term forecast. If it's close enough to present, then it effectively is now.
However, I will pass along the desire for something like the old icon-based current conditions.
--Victoria
victoria.gardner@ibm.com
Ron
I just need some way to know the current condition vis-a-vis storms and so on. If there is alternative to iconCode I'm all ears but I couldn't find one. Make sense?
Victoria Gardner, Official Rep
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elee
Now ... it does not work anymore. Every time I try to repair something to work with the new API, I realize that more and more and more are missing.
It is something not to believe. How were they to remove the previous API if they were not ready yet? What happened?
It seems that the people who made the decisions never thought of the users that we are the ones who actually feed the data. What trash I am extremely disappointed.
Victoria Gardner, Official Rep
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Victoria Gardner
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--Victoria