The WU API has been around since 2010 to help you develop apps and websites as well as manage your Personal Weather Station data. During that time, we’ve watched you build amazing products and visualize weather data with creativity and purpose.
Over the years, our infrastructure has struggled to keep up with the growing numbers of users coming to us for API data. We realized we needed to make changes to ensure the highest level of quality, performance and uptime for our API users.
As a result, we’ve made the difficult decision to retire the Weather Underground API. The Weather Company, which acquired WU back in 2012, offers a powerful suite of enterprise-grade APIs that might be better suited to meet your scale and performance needs while offering a broader range of weather data. You can see these products here.
Here’s what you need to know going forward:
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Your subscriptions, and therefore access, will continue to work through 12/31/2018.
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If you are a paying WU API customer, you will receive a call from a representative from The Weather Company, and IBM business, to discuss transition options to other API services. If you’d like to have these conversations sooner, contact us.
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If you are a Personal Weather Station owner, you will receive more information about our plan to offer free access to the data you provide to Weather Underground. We’ll reach out once that plan has been finalized.
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The WU Forum will continue to be the best place to connect, keep you informed, share your feedback and get your questions answered as we go through this process.
We are grateful for your commitment to Weather Underground and appreciate your understanding and support as we work through this process. These changes will allow us to continually improve our services and develop new features to keep WU a thriving place for you for many years to come.
Thanks for being part of the community.
Sincerely,
The WU Team
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I'm out. Precision PWS data uploads terminated.
I will remember this, IBM, when making future systems and hardware purchasing decisions.
IBM=NO <--- Possible T-shirt idea.
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Seems as though the ads have been there since WU was its own entity, though. Having been on it since the '90s myself, the ads were not a recent addition.
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I switched my system over today, it's working wonderfully. Couldn't be happier!
Thanks Mike Schaeffer for the recomendation!
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We tried to get in touch with everyone, but it seems not to have worked completely.
Did you fill in the form at the link in your post?
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How can I download in json format, which is easier to implement ?
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Try requesting this sample URL and see if the returned text is json (It is for me):
https://api.darksky.net/forecast/8ab822d3af6537d726305b0d1e08631c/37.8267,-122.4233
Oh, note that if you're making the request from a web browser, the browser may reformat the data. When I make the request with Firefox, it detects the json and reformats it into a human readable representation. Chromium just displays the raw json.
Are you calling the API from code, or from a browser?
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I use the opera browser, and with it your link return the raw data.
With firefox it's ok, I have a human readable.
I am with linux (fedora) and I use weather data for my conky-weather.
And I call the API with code with wget.
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Ok, Linux user here too. :)
So have you signed up with Dark Sky and received an API key? You just need to call the server with a URL similar to the sample that I posted that contains your API key, and latitude/longitude to get the json for your location. You can call 1000 times/day for free with your API key.
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wget https://api.darksky.net/forecast/dea84fb9969d3b8cacc7fe980223c283/43.2924,5.5703?lang=fr
No json text
I try without ?lang=fr for same result
I also try with your API key for same result.
It's very strange and I don't know why...
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{"latitude":43.2924,"longitude":5.5703,"timezone":"Europe/Paris"...What do you get back?
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Try this:
wget -O weather.json https://api.darksky.net/forecast/dea84fb9969d3b8cacc7fe980223c283/43.2924,5.5703?lang=fr
This tells wget to save the output to a file called "weather.json"
When I run this, I get a file called weather.json that contains the json data for your location.
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{"latitude":43.2924,"longitude":5.5703,"timezone":"Europe/Paris","currently"........
I think it's not a json format, like I can see on dark sky site.
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If you have jq installed on your system (a command line json parser) you could use the following command to read the temperature out of your weather.json file and display it on the console for example:
cat weather.json | jq '.currently.temperature'
If you don't have jq installed, you'll need to install it for this to work. I don't have experience with Fedora, but I *think* you could install it with:
su -c 'yum install jq'
If that doesn't work, you'll have to figure out how to install it. Unfortunately, I don't have a Fedora system to test it on.
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I find the other for pressure, wind-speed etc...
And I have a file rawdata with that :
cat weather.json | jq '.hourly.data' > rawdata
Thank a lot
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Great! I'm glad it worked for you. :)
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I access my data via two main sources:
1) A third party app
2) Samsung Smartthings weather device handler
If 1) and 2) fail to commit to the extra charges and pay for a new IBM API, will i be offered a free key so that I can build an app that will access my PWS data and importantly the forecast?
Because no-one has contacted me so far, but I know you have my contact details.
Thanks
Neil Oakley
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Yes, PWS owner/uploaders will be able to get access to the new API. See the most recent announcement here on the Forum for details.
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I am a PWS owner and provide you with data. I have had no contact from you. I would like to continue using WU to provide weather forecasts on my website.
HELP!
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Please see the updates at https://apicommunity.wunderground.com/weatherapi/topics/weather-underground-api-update.
If you still have questions, fire away. I'm right here.
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That program became unusually successful. It's in homebrew on the Mac, I get lots of mail about it from people all over the world, and I've generally kept it up to date.
For the last few weeks, I've been fixing bugs here and there and generally tightening things up. I discovered what I think is a very small error in the JSON, and so I came here to see if I could report it.
What?! What?! The API is going away?!
I am completely devastated.
I'm not writing to complain. I'm not in a boardroom at WU staring at spreadsheets trying to decide what is and is not viable for the business to succeed, and I very much want it to succeed. Any site running continuously since 1995 is now part of internet history; it would be a shame to see it go because of bad financial decisions.
But I do want to say that I thought the WU API was fantastic: beautifully designed and easy to work with. It was almost a model of how to do web services right.
So, what can I say? I'm sinking into a deep depression here, but I want to take a moment to thank one and all for a really, really great tool.
Steve
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If you want to send the report to me, I can at least see if it's something that needs to be attended to now.
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For developers who use WU API data for non-commercial purposes, you will have access to a new plan for a personal use, low call volume API. Stay tuned for more details as we build this out.
Where is that information?
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The PWS owners are the source of all the data. However, they will only get 5 day forecast instead of the previous 10 day. There's no hourly forecast. Is this the way people are being thanked for all the PWS data?
As already mentioned, there are plenty of other companies that offer the data for low usage experimentation and development. In particular darksky.net offers 7 day forecast both daily and hourly in a json format. It took very little time to convert my programs and customers to that web site.
When I worked for IBM, people would have been fired if they suggested retiring an existing API before the new API was available and tested.
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I'm dangerous with metaphors right about now.
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We know this is not ideal. I maintain that PWS API keys will be protected as we come up to the close date.
Sorry for those who find my attempts to lighten the mood misplaced. In the midst of 12-hour days, I have to what I can to keep smiling.
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- Your past data will always be available to you for viewing and download in a web browser on wunderground.com, just like it always has.
- If you are in the small minority of people who use the WU API and a corresponding WU API key to obtain data in .json format, here's what's happening:
- You'll sign up and get a new API key for the new API
- Once the registration page is open, we'll keep the old API and your old API key active for 2 weeks to allow transition time to your new key
We'll announce in the forum when the registration page opens.
Or, email victoria.gardner@ibm.com to receive an email notification once it's ready.
- The new API will provide access to
- Current observations from the PWS network
- 5 day daily forecast
- PWS historical data
- PWS lookup by geocode, zip code and location
- Call volume: 1500/day, 30/minute
The documentation for the new API is available here.
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Thanks,
Jim
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For those who are paying for WU API, what services are you looking at? Are you planning on sticking with the Weather API or moving to another service provider?
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Users of WU sites and apps should continue to see the same excellent weather forecasts they have relied on for years.
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If the forecast is accurate, why would they be different?
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Goodbye, cool website. You were awesome. Sorry to see so many hours of hard work and data collection get destroyed by greed.
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1. https://web.archive.org/web/20181229135359/https://apicommunity.wunderground.com/weatherapi/topics/e...
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The Weather Company offers limited-time-length trial keys for their paid subscriptions. For more information, see http://biz.weather.com/WU-Data-API_Data-Package-Demo-Request.html
We thank everyone who has been part of using Weather Underground as the old API comes to an end, and wish everyone the best in their future endeavors.
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Yes, the short-term evaluative access is for The Weather Company's API. But it's probably not true that you can fill out the demo form today and get called tomorrow and have the key set up the day after. It is unlikely at this point that you'd get a demo key before the new API's gateway is up.
Does that answer the question? I'm not sure it did, so don't hesitate to let me know if I missed the mark.
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Yes, that answers my question.
So to be clear, there is no way we can test out the new API until the keys are made available? I'm just looking for a way to test now while I have some free cycles to look at this.
Claude
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You wrote:So I have been one of the minority who uploads PWS data as well as uses the API. When will a registration be open? You implied the old API would go away after two weeks once you register. If I don't register how long will the old API keys remain active? ;-)- We'll open a registration page for you to get a new API key to get your data in .json format
- If you are in the small minority of people who use the WU API and a corresponding WU API key to obtain data in .json format, here's what's happening:
- You'll sign up and get a new API key for the new API
- Once the registration page is open, we'll keep the old API and your old API key active for 2 weeks to allow transition time to your new key
We'll announce in the forum when the registration page opens.
How compatible will the old vs new json formats be? Hopefully the same or very close. Right now there was a ton of work involved to get he json handler to work on a small embedded processor like the ESP8266. If changing the API key is all we need to do that would be cool but I fear the entire format returned will be considerably different and break all my devices.
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It is more than just putting a new key in an old call. It is less than building from the ground up. I don't really have an adequate way to characterize "compatible", as that seems to me to be subjective.
This is why we released the documentation more than a month ago, here: https://apicommunity.wunderground.com/weatherapi/topics/weather-underground-api-update
Gateway information will be available soon. If you don't sign up for a new key, the old key will go away. More information on that when it becomes available.
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Be that as it may, would you like me to have someone get in touch on Monday? Please let me know what the best way to reach you is, as clearly none of the methods we've tried have worked.
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I've already filled out the contact form but I cannot wait until next week to fix this. I hope you can understand my frustration.
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I've already taken steps to get you through the weekend. Please get in touch with me and I can get you in touch with someone faster than just filling out the form.
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But I don't understand. The PWS API is free. Downloading your own data -- free.
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Let me know if anything doesn't work or doesn't make sense.
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It is also linked from the page with the API key on Wunderground.
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1) Can windspeed/ wind gust etc. be decimal value as well please?
2) Under the old system there is a link to an animated gif which gives the rainfall radar images over the last half hour. Can something similar be provided?
3) Under the old system there was a visibility reading. Can this be provided?
Thanks very much!
Steve
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Can you explain to me the need for such precision in the wind speed?
I will pass along the other two, but I don't think add-ons are likely.
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The windspeed is uploaded as a decimal and under the current system is displayed as such. I can see it is viewable as such on the wunderground webpage, so I was thinking that it could be just kept as a decimal rather than converted to an integer as it won't use any more storage on your servers? Agree though that this is less valuable than the decimal for temperature readings.
Steve
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The thinking that went into the integer vs decimal was probably less about space considerations than about creating false precision. But I'll see what the developers say.
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1 decimals for temperature
2 live - realtime updates on the PWS page.
3 a complete metric page in stead of parts in metric parts in imperial.
Victoria please bring them back!
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The more responsive updating on the web should be back up next week.
Decimals (additional precision) should be here by the end of the month. I'm not sure what the ETA will be for them to be deployed to the web site.
The programmers are busily trying to get all the unit issues sorted out. If you have specific comments about them, the best place to put them is the web site's feedback, https://feedback.weather.com/?b_id=17298.
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where do you find the new free API ?
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I seem to be seeing different EOL dates tossed around, and I have yet to be contacted by WU/WC via e-mail (as I sort of thought I would be - that's what the original notice says). Can you tell me what day the old API service will actually stop dead in its tracks? Is it March 22nd? Thank You.
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All the email efforts went out in late 2018. I'm sorry yours did not manage to find you!
Most of the keys have already been turned off. Keys that are associated with a personal weather station will be kept on until 3-22, at which point they will also be turned off.
Hope that helps!
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I see an example URI for fetching forecast by postal code:
https://api.weather.com/v3/wx/forecast/daily/7day?postalKey=<postalKey>&units=<units>&language=<language>&format=<format>&apiKey=yourApiKey
If I replace that with the newly issued API key that I got by following links (as a longtime PWS owner uploading to wunderground.com), I get:
Access DeniedYou don't have permission to access "http://api.weather.com/v3/wx/forecast/daily/7day?"; on this server.
Reference #18.97afedcc.1554820001.3fb0a988
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The PWS API has access to the following:
• Current observations from the PWS network
• 5 day daily forecast
• PWS historical data
• PWS lookup by geocode, zip code and location
• Call volume: 1500/day, 30/minute
The PWS API is not a re-creation of the old WU API. You may want to look through some of the newer threads in the Forum, where there have been extensive discussions of the new API.
Access to a fully developed, enterprise-grade API is available by paid subscription through The Weather Company, http://biz.weather.com/WU-Data-API_Data-Package-Demo-Request.html
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There is no longer any sort of "developer" level status -- only PWS uploaders have access to the PWS API.
If the only thing you want is PWS data, it sounds as is you need to have your own station. The Weather Company can provide data from the PWS network, but if there are no PWSs close enough to be of use, that won't help.
In the end, only you can decide what is right in your situation.
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We used WU for a lot of school projects but now sorry in this day and age where money can be in short supply we have to look else where which means leaving WU for a better provider. Such a shame as this also means the children we teach then move to the other service as do those that follow on later when they start their projects...
SO this move has a domino effect which looses you many more potential users in the future and one that will hurt your business model later down the line.... Well at least this lesson can be taught to the next generation of students as a model of HOW NOT TO DO THINGS....
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If you are now uploading data to the WU PWS network, follow the instructions in the first response to this post: https://apicommunity.wunderground.com/weatherapi/topics/end-of-feb-wu-api-update
If you have trouble with that, please email me directly, victoria.gardner@ibm.com, and let me know what problems you encounter so I can help.
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Your link to the new API above does not work. I'm clueless how to request one. Good news is my solar panel data that is uploaded to PVOutput has modified their code to work with the new API. I just need to now enable the stupid thing witha new key. Your not making this easy... HELP!
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BTW - The data returned is acceptable for PVOutput but my other apps are still broken. OpenSprinkler decided to drop WU altogether and uses OpenWeatherMaps now. If I want my sprinkler to use my backyard data for calculating run times then I need to export the data to OpenWeatherMaps. My Davis Vantage Vue does not offer that as an option. Will need to run something like WeeWx to grab the data and upload it.
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Will IBM/WU be providing a free service to non-commercial, low volume (less than <100 access per day) users who do not possess PWS devices and therefore do not upload weather data; for their own Home Automation needs?
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thanks stuart
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We spent a lot of time and effort trying to get hold of everyone, so I'm sorry we didn't succeed in your case. The API itself has actually been sending out a message with every payload since the beginning of the year, in addition to everything else.
As of this moment, we do not anticipate offering free access to the replacement API for anyone except PWS owner/uploaders.
The Weather Company offers limited-time-length trial keys for their paid subscriptions. For more information, see http://biz.weather.com/WU-Data-API_Data-Package-Demo-Request.html
We again thank everyone who has been part of using Weather Underground as the old API comes to an end, and wish everyone the best in their future endeavors.
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It includes:
• Current observations from the PWS network
• 5 day daily forecast
• PWS historical data
• PWS lookup by geocode, zip code and location
• Call volume: 1500/day, 30/minute
PWS holders who want to get an API key should follow the instructions here: https://apicommunity.wunderground.com/weatherapi/topics/turning-off-pws-associated-keys
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The Weather Underground API has been retired. Keys have been closed down on a rolling basis since February 15, 2019. Notices were posted on the API data pages, through emails, and through payload information send out by the API itself starting in May 2018.
It has been replaced for paying subscribers by The Weather Company's API. Packages for that enterprise-grade platform and a form to fill out for contact by a sales rep may be found here: http://biz.weather.com/WU-Data-API_Data-Package-Demo-Request.html
For PWS owner/uploaders, there is free access to an API that provides a subset of The Weather Channel's APIs. It provides:
- Current observations from the PWS network
- 5 day daily forecast
- PWS historical data
- PWS lookup by geocode, zip code and location
- Call volume: 1500/day, 30/minute
PWS uploaders can generate their new key by logging into their Weather Underground account and looking under "API keys" in "Member Settings". Documentation for that API may be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eKCnKXI9xnoMGRRzOL1xPCBihNV2rOet08qpE_gArAY/edit
The new key does not really "replace" the old one, because the new key does not work in old API calls, just as the old API key does not work in new API calls. The new API also does not use XML calls, only JSON calls.
We do not anticipate offering free, ongoing “developer” level keys to The Weather Company’s API.
If you have additional questions, please let me know.
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One of the applications I use to monitor my PWS was originally developed as a DIY Weather IoT device that I had modified to do what I needed. I'm looking to modifying that program as it's written in C/C++ so I just need to replace the API calls and parse JSON instead of XML.
However the other application that I use is a plugin for the Logitech Media Server and I have a couple of the original SqueezeBox 3 media players from Slim Devices before they were bought out by Logitech. I no longer use these devices to play music but it has a really cool Fluorescent display that looks like the digital dashboard in cars. The plugin is called SuperDateTime and it had been modified to pull data from WU using the old API.
Unfortunately none of the developers of this plugin appear to be interested in updating the package as most users have since moved on to using other packages that work with other weather data providers. On some of the forums that I have looked at they were full of predictions of doom and gloom when it was announced that the original WU API was going to be retired. I've been posting the latest info about the new WU API and a couple of us have offered to donate to have the packages updated but so far there have been no takers. I suspect it might be because there is no free access for developers.
I think it would be helpful if non PWS owners could request a developer key that would only be good for a few months before it would expire.
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I'm of the opinion that this is akin to Facebook deciding suddenly only to let you see black and white thumbnails of all the photos you uploaded, yet still let their business customers gain from all the benefits from the full resolution / colour pictures. I don't mind being the product if I am using a service at no cost, but I don't expect to be taken advantage of at the same time.
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Or: purchase a subscription to The Weather Company's API and have access to what you want that way.
The custom date ranges are gone for now.
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use /all variant, throw away what you don't want. That gets you everything in one call. You can use the daily/hourly variants with multiple calls, too, but I am assuming you don't want to burn up lots of calls.
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I write software that allows the PWS station to cross post.
#1 we can no longer look up our station and get the closest airport and city. I was using that to setup my program for the PWS owner. Now he has to manual do that.
#2 We can no longer get data from the airport only PWS stations. I used airport pres to auto correct a users station data. I had to switch to the madis API to get the local airport data.
#3 We can no longer get a forecast. Where is the forecasts API
#4 We can no longer get a customized radar/satellite maps.
Its none of my business what you want to drop but you pretended the new API would just be a format change its not. It is not a replacement it is another separate PWS data access service.
It does not do what the original did.
I would request that you ask for the airports to be added to the new API this makes no sense that they are not allowed to be accessed.
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The METAR (airport) stations are in a separate group of APIs in The Weather Company's APIs. It would be non-trivial to include them in the PWS API.
For everything else, yes, this is an accurate reflection of things that are not included. They exist in The Weather Company's APIs, for those who want them. You can request a sales representative to contact you about those by filling out the form here: http://biz.weather.com/WU-Data-API_Data-Package-Demo-Request.html
Thank you for using Weather Underground!
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