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
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perishthethought@piefed.social on 23 Jul 23:54 next collapse

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.

nope@jlai.lu on 24 Jul 08:54 collapse

Cool. Do you plan to release the code somewhere ?

astronaut_sloth@mander.xyz on 24 Jul 00:03 next collapse

I really like Open-Meteo. It’s worked really well for my weather-related projects.

JillyB@beehaw.org on 24 Jul 08:12 collapse

My weather app uses that for weather data. I’ve found it more reliable than other people’s apps.

Gullible@sh.itjust.works on 24 Jul 00:34 next collapse

None of this is surprising. People called it the instant trump defunded… everything

BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz on 24 Jul 01:24 next collapse

Good!

-Republicans on Welfare!

aramis87@fedia.io on 24 Jul 01:39 next collapse

I don't know why people bother with AccuWeather, when there's weather.gov, with it's free API.

kbotc@lemmy.world on 24 Jul 01:51 next collapse

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.

vividspecter@aussie.zone on 24 Jul 02:13 next collapse

US only I suspect, and likely to be gutted by the Trump administration.

tyler@programming.dev on 24 Jul 05:40 collapse

Not us only. NOAA does global forecasts.

atzanteol@sh.itjust.works on 24 Jul 03:59 next collapse

Weather.gov is amazing! I keep hoping that it survives the culling…

systemglitch@lemmy.world on 24 Jul 12:49 collapse

Fucking Americans… can you guys disappear for a few years pls

TheGoldenV@lemmy.org on 24 Jul 13:01 collapse

We’re on track to disappear forever. Calm down.

dastanktal@lemmy.ml on 24 Jul 01:40 next collapse

I stopped using these guys when it became clear they were doing everything they could to prevent the government from developing their own app.

IDraw4u@sh.itjust.works on 24 Jul 01:48 next collapse

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

Isoprenoid@programming.dev on 24 Jul 04:22 collapse

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.

Myers faced criticism in 2005 when he supported the National Weather Service Duties Act of 2005, a bill … that would have prohibited the National Weather Service from publishing weather data to the public when private-sector entities, such as AccuWeather, perform the same function commercially.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Myers#Political_activi…

IDraw4u@sh.itjust.works on 25 Jul 02:23 next collapse

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

IDraw4u@sh.itjust.works on 25 Jul 02:24 collapse

report found Accuweather “did not take reasonable action to prevent and remedy harassing conduct.” Joel Myers, who was president of Accuweather during the period covered by the agreement, signed a settlement where AccuWeather agrees to pay out $290,000 to at least 39 women, institute in-person training for managers to identify harassment, and send harassment complaints to a 3rd party till at least 2018.[13][14]

Hmm that lines up

PushButton@lemmy.world on 24 Jul 08:27 next collapse

AccuWeather is excited to share important updates coming this summer to the AccuWeather API Developer Portal,

Oh yeah, the famous “we are excited”. It must be a great news for YOU then… 🙄

Kissaki@programming.dev on 24 Jul 09:51 collapse
  • excited to share
  • to the Developer Portal (as if it were only a dev portal interface and not subscription or established flow changes)
  • designed to elevate YOUR experience
  • designed to ensure YOU get the most from them
  • to better support YOUR development needs
  • more powerful platform
  • more streamlined platform
  • to suit every stage of YOUR journey
  • Discontinuation of Free Limited Trial Packages

Yep, completely dishonest corporate double-speak - and not just in the word “excited”.

AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip on 24 Jul 13:14 next collapse

My weather app primarily uses accuweather, am i cooked?

Zoomboingding@lemmy.world on 24 Jul 15:12 next collapse

Huh. Pokemon GO uses the accuweather API. I wonder if they’ll start paying or if they’ll jump ship.

cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone on 24 Jul 15:14 next collapse

pirateweather!

https://docs.pirateweather.net/en/latest/API/

realitista@lemmus.org on 24 Jul 15:50 collapse

I’m happy they’re still going. I thought that defunding of NOAA would kill them.

HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org on 24 Jul 16:09 collapse

Isn’t the primary purpose of all these commercial / non-FOSS weather apps to harvest and track location information?