AccuWeather to discontinue free access to Core Weather API
(developer.accuweather.com)
from Pro@programming.dev to programming@programming.dev on 23 Jul 23:12
https://programming.dev/post/34418079
from Pro@programming.dev to programming@programming.dev on 23 Jul 23:12
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REWRITE because I don't know how to read.
My own home-grown weather page uses the API from openweathermap.org. That works really well for me, for a few years now.
Cool. Do you plan to release the code somewhere ?
I really like Open-Meteo. It’s worked really well for my weather-related projects.
My weather app uses that for weather data. I’ve found it more reliable than other people’s apps.
None of this is surprising. People called it the instant trump defunded… everything
Good!
-Republicans on Welfare!
I don't know why people bother with AccuWeather, when there's weather.gov, with it's free API.
Accuweather’s entire plan is to destroy free access to NWS data and charge people for access that they have. Trump’s just making it a reality and Accuweather’s laying their groundwork right now.
US only I suspect, and likely to be gutted by the Trump administration.
Not us only. NOAA does global forecasts.
Weather.gov is amazing! I keep hoping that it survives the culling…
Fucking Americans… can you guys disappear for a few years pls
We’re on track to disappear forever. Calm down.
I stopped using these guys when it became clear they were doing everything they could to prevent the government from developing their own app.
Just fyi the people who own/ run it are assholes and the people who work there are miserable for the most part, so this isn’t surprising
You really should be providing a source when you make these kinds of claims:
Joel Myers’ Wikipedia article is pretty damning. He does sound like an asshole.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Myers#Political_activi…
I mean I could but that’s what all the people I know who worked there said, and me saying that is the the hearsay I’m sharing
Hmm that lines up
Oh yeah, the famous “we are excited”. It must be a great news for YOU then… 🙄
Yep, completely dishonest corporate double-speak - and not just in the word “excited”.
My weather app primarily uses accuweather, am i cooked?
Huh. Pokemon GO uses the accuweather API. I wonder if they’ll start paying or if they’ll jump ship.
pirateweather!
https://docs.pirateweather.net/en/latest/API/
I’m happy they’re still going. I thought that defunding of NOAA would kill them.
Isn’t the primary purpose of all these commercial / non-FOSS weather apps to harvest and track location information?