Importing data from a JSON Weather API into Microsoft Excel using Power Query
This article shows how to import data into Microsoft Excel using Power Query from a RESTful Weather API. This API returns JSON-based data. We are also going to explain how to create a loop within our script so that we can call the API multiple times for multiple locations and create a combined result table …
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How To Load Weather Data into Google Sheets using JSON
While it is very easy to load weather data into Google Sheets via CSV, loading JSON can seem a bit more challenging. However, for the savvy Google Sheets user, loading JSON weather data from the Visual Crossing Timeline Weather API is almost as easy as using CSV and offers additional benefit and functionality that CSV …
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Weather API JSON result structure
This document applies to the /forecast and /history endpoints. If you are using the Timeline Weather API (/timeline), you can find the JSON structure documented on the Time Weather API documentation page. This article describes the JSON structure returned from the weather API. This same basic structure is returned for both weather forecast, weather history …
How to load Visual Crossing weather data into Alibaba Cloud DataWorks
Aliaba Cloud DataWorks is an end-to-end big data development and governance platform that provides data warehousing, data lake, and data lakehouse solutions based on big data compute engines. Weather data is widely used in a variety of scenarios in data analytics and AI applications and hence often to be integrated in your data load scenarios. …
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What is a Weather API?
A weather API is an Application Programming Interface that allows weather data to be queried from scripts and code. Good weather APIs provide both historical weather data and forecast data via an easy-to-use, well-defined programming interface. The best APIs have dozens of weather measures, near-real-time current conditions reporting, and decades of worldwide historical weather reports. …
Date and Times in the Weather API
The Weather API uses a set of standards to include date time information. This article describes the standards used. Date formats in the Weather API Visual Crossing uses ISO 8601 based date formats for both date and times. Dates are formatted according to YYYY-MM-DD format (2022-06-15 for June 15th 2022). Times are formatted according to HH:mm:ss. The hours are specified in …
How to load weather data into a Juypter Notebook
This article describes how to create a new Jupyter notebook that retrieves weather data from the Visual Crossing Weather API. The example uses Python as development language but you can choose any language that Jupyter supports including C++ and R. JupyterLab is used to create the notebook. JupyterLab is a web-based interactive development environment for …
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Weather Data Documentation
The Visual Crossing Weather Data platform provides the ability to easily access weather data sets including weather forecast data, weather history data and historical weather summary data. The data is available for download through the Weather Data Query Page and the Timeline Weather API. Core weather columns These columns are common to most weather data sets unless disabled. …
Replacing the Yahoo Weather API
Visual Crossing is the perfect replacement for the Yahoo Weather API offering up to 1000 free results a day and full access to forecast and historical data.
What exactly is a weather record?
A weather record is the smallest unit of weather data that is used in the Visual Crossing Weather accounting process for our plans. Whether you have unlimited data access or are limited to 1000 records per day as a member of our Free plan, it is useful to understand the accounting behind weather records What …