DarkSky end of life next january - How to replace

[Michel Angelo]

Hello. On 27 sept. 2022 at 15:56, James Sentman <james at sentman.com> wrote 
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> I’ve been looking for an alternative weather API ever since Dark Sky shut theirs down. Technically it was Apple that shut them down as it wanted their super local forecasts in it’s own weather app and so has no plans to offer it to other people any longer than they have to.
> 
> I’ve had a quick look at the Tempest stuff but it seems to be that you need a tempest weather station to have an account with them? I can’t see a way to create an account and get an auth token that doesn’t start with my buying a device. If anyone knows differently or has experimented with it please let me know.
> 
> I’ve started several times over the years to write a direct plugin for the NOAA national weather data stuff as that is free for regular individual use, or was the last time I looked, it’s just more complex and I don’t think offers the same highly localized forecasts that Dark Sky used to. I know I’ve asked for suggestions here in the past and then basically dropped it when the sites either wouldn’t work easily or would cost a subscription.
> 
> That being said if anyone has any ideas better than the national weather data please do chime in with more info.

Today, DarkSky works. Can we assume it does so at no incremental cost to Apple ? If then keeping the API (or whatever else we need on xtension) alive does not cost anything to Apple, and considering the fact that xTension runs exclusively on Apple machines, is it silly to tell Aple the matter in which we use the API and request from Apple, for the purpose of using it in xTension the right to keep on using the API and hence the preservation, by Apple, of the Darksky API (to the extent it is needed for our use) ?

We are old-time customers dammit

Just my 2c.

— 
Michel Angelo
<michel_angelo at me.com>



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