WeatherKit

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Post by ag8 » Sun, Jul 03, 2022, 3:45 AM UTC

WeatherKit
developer.apple.com

Re: WeatherKit

#2

Post by twicetwice » Sun, Jul 03, 2022, 4:07 AM UTC

Looks like this is what they did with DarkSky after they acquired it. It looks awesome. It's a shame it's only available to Apple developers and users

Edit: my bad for skimming too fast, I'm glad there's a REST API, that's unexpected and cool!

Re: WeatherKit

#3

Post by [deleted] » Sun, Jul 03, 2022, 4:08 AM UTC

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Re: WeatherKit

#4

Post by junofan » Sun, Jul 03, 2022, 4:10 AM UTC

twicetwice wrote: post #2

Looks like this is what they did with DarkSky after they acquired it. It looks awesome. It's a shame it's only available to Apple developers and users Edit: my bad for skimming too fast, I'm glad there's a REST API, that's unexpected and cool!

Says there’s a REST API?

Re: WeatherKit

#5

Post by semicolon_storm » Sun, Jul 03, 2022, 4:10 AM UTC

Is there anything in this that DarkSky didn't provide years ago before it was acquired by Apple?

Re: WeatherKit

#6

Post by twicetwice » Sun, Jul 03, 2022, 4:12 AM UTC

junofan wrote: post #4

twicetwice wrote: post #2

Looks like this is what they did with DarkSky after they acquired it. It looks awesome. It's a shame it's only available to Apple developers and users Edit: my bad for skimming too fast, I'm glad there's a REST API, that's unexpected and cool!

Says there’s a REST API?

Oops, that's what I get for not reading closely enough! In my defense, my eyes glazed over after the fourth Apple-product-OS version number ;) but yes, my bad on that

Looks like it's 500k calls per month per Apple Developer Program account, so essentially $99/yr. Not totally unreasonable pricing, although I wish I could buy it a la carte. It's a bit out of my price range for hobby projects. If I ever start developing apps for my family members (who mostly have iPhones at this point) though this will be a nice freebie to come with that. Ah well.

Re: WeatherKit

#7

Post by leohonexus » Sun, Jul 03, 2022, 4:13 AM UTC

twicetwice wrote: post #2

Looks like this is what they did with DarkSky after they acquired it. It looks awesome. It's a shame it's only available to Apple developers and users Edit: my bad for skimming too fast, I'm glad there's a REST API, that's unexpected and cool!

Seems like a REST API is available, but you’ll have to be in the Apple developer program to access it. I think this might be to allow previous Dark Sky API users to continue using it.

Re: WeatherKit

#8

Post by annexrichmond » Sun, Jul 03, 2022, 4:13 AM UTC

I learned in a meeting at my last job that many weather apps solely exist to collect and sell location data. Don’t have specific evidence but it seemed to be par for the course. So I’m glad to see this API, hopefully it’ll help more privacy focused weather apps thrive.

Re: WeatherKit

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Jul 03, 2022, 4:15 AM UTC

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Re: WeatherKit

#10

Post by saagarjha » Sun, Jul 03, 2022, 4:15 AM UTC

Using it in a watch complication right now to replace the low density ones that Apple provides; the native API is quite pleasant to use. Seems like they’re rapidly evolving it and dogfooding it heavily, since there’s a ton of deprecated API that seems to support internal clients, and hidden fields (AQI) that aren’t exposed yet to third party apps. Setup is a little clunky though because you have to register with them and wait a little while before they grant you access.