DarkSky end of life next january - How to replace

[Michel Angelo]

Hello. Le 2 oct. 2022 à 17:02, Philippe SCHMUCK <philippe-schmuck at orange.fr> a écrit :

> Some additional information I did not see before for Visualcrossing to get the best weather station near your location, enter the following URL:
> https://www.visualcrossing.com/weather-history <https://www.visualcrossing.com/weather-history>
> It will show you a list of the nearest weather station (airports, etc.).
> Pic the ID you’re interested in and put it in the URL
> https://weather.visualcrossing.com/VisualCrossingWebServices/rest/services/timeline/WEATHER <https://weather.visualcrossing.com/VisualCrossingWebServices/rest/services/timeline/WEATHER>_STATION_ID/today?include=fcst%2Cobs%2Chistfcst%2Cstats%2Cdays&key=YOURAPIKEY&contentType=json <https://weather.visualcrossing.com/VisualCrossingWebServices/rest/services/timeline/YOURLOCATION/today?include=fcst%2Cobs%2Chistfcst%2Cstats%2Cdays&key=YOURAPIKEY&contentType=json>

VisualCrossing seems to genuinely want to replace Darksky, including for non-paying customers. Problem is I find it difficult to get it to work for xTension. 

Issue 1: 

I got the "curl: (60) SSL Certificate problem: certificate has expired" 

This problem is exclusive of Visualcrossing: I did not have to face it with DarkSky. 

I temporarily got rid of this problem by turning off curl's verification of the certificate.

I replaced "curl " by "curl -k , which triggers the insecure version.  This stopped the symptom of the problem but did not cure the problem; I will need to resolve that in the future, after having got a success on the script. . "

Issue 2:

"json exception lexical error: invalid char in json text. "

the script I try to get to work is (key edited)

<script>

try
	with timeout of 20 seconds
		set P_URL to "curl  -k " & quote & "https://weather.visualcrossing.com/VisualCrossingWebServices/rest/services/timeline/D3549/today?include=fcst%2Cobs%2Chistfcst%2Cstats%2Cdays&key=[myKey]]&contentType=json" & quote	
		set P_text to do shell script P_URL
	end timeout
on error errMsg number errNum
	write log "Script Visualcrossing - Curl - Error Num : " & errNum & " - Error Msg : " & errMsg
end try

try
	set myRecord to parse json P_text
on error
	write log "Script Visualcrossing - There was an error parsing the JSON data!"
	return
end try

set thedailyTendency to xdescription of myRecord
write log "Script Visualcrossing - thedailyTendency : " & thedailyTendency

<end script>

What could be wrong (which invalid character in jsom text ?)

Thanks in advance. 

— 
Michel Angelo
<michel_angelo at me.com>



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