New PW-forecast.php script for international/multilingual forecasts

[ktrue]

As you likely know, after Apple bought DarkSky, the ability to get new DarkSky API keys vanished, and the API itself is soon to be withdrawn from availability. Fortunately, a PhD student has cobbled together an API using public weather data (GFS, GEFS, HRRR) on Amazon Web Services and is offering a free API in the DarkSky format. WooHoo, said I. So I’ve adapted my existing (and soon to be obsolete) DS-forecast.php to use the new API.

The site offering the API is https://pirateweather.net/ (‘pirate’ because HRRR sounds like the ARRRR that pirates supposedly used).

The new API is not quite as full-featured as the real DarkSky API:

1. English text responses only (but the PW-forecast.php handles multilingual translations built-in)
2. Sparse ‘conditions’ text… usually only one word.
3. Alerts are just titles… no link to details

I’ll be adding the offering to the Base-World template set next week. The script set is available from two sources:

Saratoga-Weather.org - Scripts - Pirateweather Forecast and GitHub - ktrue/PW-forecast: Global multilingual weather forecast using api.pirateweather.net forecast API

See the demo at Pirateweather Forecast script - Demo Page

[Weerstation]

How exactely am I to get a free API.
Going to that website.
Ok
But I am getting nowhere.
Sign up for that, subscribe to that, creating a team…etc
But no free api.
Can you explain a bit please.

TIA

[swright1957]

Have you tried clicking the register button at the top Right hand corner?

[bitsostring]

@Weerstation

How exactely am I to get a free API.

Did you see that you now have a choice?

New OpenWeatherMap and VisualCrossing weather forecast scripts available

It’s been a busy late Jan/early Feb with coding to add two more sources for international, multilingual forecasts: OpenWeatherMap (https://openweathermap.org) and VisualCrossing (https://visualcrossing.com). Both provide limited-use free API keys available. Both providers only give one daily icon per-day for their forecasts, (so no day/night displays). OpenWeatherMap does provide full translations for forecast text. VisualCrossing provides de (German), en (English), es (Spanish), fi (Finnis…

[Weerstation]

Yes, I have set up an account.
Do I have to subscribe to the free tier?

Yes, I have seen that I have a choice but all say you have to sign up to get an api.
I do understand that you have to register to get an api but I don’t succeed in doing that.

I will try again tonight. spend some more time on it.

[Weerstation]

I have chosen the OWM-forecast script but I have a hard time to get this working due to these so called subscriptions. [Sigh]
Registered and an active api in my account but still giving me an error.