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In this article, we will use a RESTful web service to retrieve weather forecast data into a simple Java application. We will first retrieve the data as a comma separator value (CSV) string. After that we will retrieve the same weather forecast in JSON format so we can manipulate the weather forecast data easily within …
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The standard Visual Crossing Weather query page makes it easy to create weather API queries and download CSV data for multiple weeks or months and multiple locations. However, sometimes you need to retrieve more weather data than can easily be fetched via simple browser query. If you need thousands of rows of results, many locations, …
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Sub-hourly historical weather data, or historical weather data with minute-by-minute resolution can be retrieved by users of the weather API. Please see the weather data editions page for details on which weather API plans include sub-hourly data access. Requests for sub-hourly data mirror the same requests for hourly or daily uses however there are some …
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The Weather API enables you to return a icon name for each row of weather data that summaries the weather that for that time period. This is done through the iconSet parameter in the API requests. We have built this parameter to be extended over time to offer different icon sets. At the moment, the …
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The Weather API includes a unitGroup parameter that allows you to specify the units that will be used when returning weather data. This article describes the units within each group. The API uses four group ids to indicate the units that will be used – us, metric, uk and base. us – United States Weather …
Sometimes when requesting historical weather data via the weather API we wish to request data for a fixed period based on the current data. For example, request the data for yesterday or today. The time period parameter of the weather API allows you to easily request data for dynamic time periods. Example request Here is …
In our previous articles about integrating Weather History data into Power BI and Microsoft Excel, we have used the Visual Crossing Weather API to retrieve historical weather data. In this article we discuss how to make those weather data queries automatically read the latest weather conditions using Microsoft Power Query. If you would like to …
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Dark Sky have recently announced the termination of their Dark Sky Weather API. In this article, we describe the steps to convert an existing application from the Dark Sky API to the Visual Crossing Weather API. API Differences Both the Dark Sky API and the Visual Crossing Weather API offer weather data APIs however there …
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This article describes how dates and times are described in the Weather API output results. Most weather information includes a date or date and time to indicate the time period for the weather information. It is possible to retrieve the date and time information in different formats depending on the usage of the data. API …
In this article we demonstrate how to load weather history data using Python without using scraping.