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How does this differ from NOAA weather.gov api? https://www.weather.gov/documentation/services-web-api Or is this a friendlier overlay of their interface?
Right now there are thousands of weather stations posting regular reports via APRS.
Any chance to see those integrated?
Anyhow, here's the url:
I found this old blog article at a high level on how Dark Sky works... about 12 years old now. I always loved this app and was kind of sad when Apple acquired them... but to have Apple come in and just buy your app out is probably a great feeling for the founders :) Anyhow, here's the url: https://jackadam.github.io/2011/how-dark-sky-works
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/weatherkitrestapi
I created the start of a Python wrapper for WeatherKit, if anyone is interested in helping with that effort:
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> is it free, open, documented and legal ? I think it says something that we live in a world where NOAA data could be seen as an underground or less than legal means of getting the weather. Perhaps AccuWeather has been successful in their campaign to keep free weather data as obscure as possible.
I think it's more about it having "pirate" in the name that makes one question its legality.
what ive always wanted is a competent API for weather.gov, but theres just no impetus to get NOAA to drop their convoluted pseudo-XML gobbledygook.
Emails to them resulted in replies asking to instead use their FTP.
Additionally they're one of the few Australian Gov agencies that still don't have proper https deployment yet.
Just bought you a coffee, everyone who upvoted this should chip in!