Individual Screenlets

weather.com data feed license

Bug #1004802 reported by Rastko Karadzic
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Bug Description

weather.com data feed is no longer free (http://www.tropicdesigns.net/blog/weather-com-suddenly-cancels-their-free-xml-data-feed-for-developers/). We should change to some other free data feed (http://www.worldweatheronline.com/). Also, maybe it would be good to write weather API and put it in screenlets core (sensors.py maybe?) because there are many weather type screenlets that pulls info from same location but every one of them implements different methods.

Märt Põder (boamaod)
Changed in indiv-screenlets:
status: New → Confirmed
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Märt Põder (boamaod) wrote :

I personally was using Freemeteo anyway, but weather API is certainly a good idea. I suppose even differences in weather feeds won't be a big problem...

Which screenlets were using the weather.com feed, anyway? More than one? Users are welcome to fix or propose patches of course.

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Rastko Karadzic (rastkokaradzic) wrote :

Widgets using weather.com feed are: ClearWeather, SmoothWeather, Weather, WidescapeWeather. All are from indiv-screenlet s package. All of them are actually using same code(copy/paste) for weather.com feed. Feed works ok with API key, i assume that that is Whises API key. Maybe weather.com gave him key for free with some restrictions?
About Weather API, we could implement different feeds so developers can choose from which feed they want to pull weather data.

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Rastko Karadzic (rastkokaradzic) wrote :

It looks like Whises API key for weather.com feed is legit and it works. Also, there is now Weather API added in core that use that
key.

Changed in indiv-screenlets:
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
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