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In this article we are going to demonstrate how to import data from a RESTful Weather API. This API returns JSON-based data into Microsoft Excel. 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 …
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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. …
The Weather APIs include a ‘conditions’ field which represents a summary of the key weather features for a particular weather record (be it daily, hourly or subhourly record). How is the condition field calculated? The weather conditions field is created by examining the weather that will be or was experienced during that weather record. If …
Historical precipitation data is an important weather measure that is very useful for many types of personal analyses and business use cases. Whether you are looking for precipitation data to plan a trip, schedule a conference, or optimize agriculture, a weather data service such as Visual Crossing Weather can provide precipitation data easily using global …
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The Timeline Weather API includes the ability to include significant weather and environmental events that have occurred near to a place of interest. These events can include earthquakes, hail, tornado and wind damage. When found, events are are included in the daily results. What kind of reports are available? There can be a number of …
While it is very easy to run weather queries using HTTP GET requests, there are times when it is preferable or even necessary to use HTTP POST requests instead. While HTTP POST requests are a little more complicated to configure and execute, they are well within the reach of any modern script or language. Also, …
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All types of development environments need access to weather data. From command-line tasks such as database ETL, to scripts that drive websites and priority alerts, to mobile apps and complex business applications, weather data drives insight, decisions, and revenue. A good weather API is flexible enough to span all of these use cases, bringing a …
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Using a weather API is an extremely powerful and flexible way to get weather data for any project. Whether you need historical data, forecasts, or current conditions, using an API allows you to automate fully automate the query process. There is no need to deal with web pages cluttered with ads or constantly updating an …
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Our recently released Timeline Weather API allows you to easily retrieve hourly and daily historical weather data and weather forecast data in a single RESTful API call. In this article we demonstrate how to use the API in the Java programming language. For the full source of this example, download it from our GitHub repository: …
In this article, we are going to build a simple Microsoft Outlook add-in that shows weather data in an ‘task panel’. Where possible, it will extract location information from the currently open email. It will show the weather history when the email was sent and the weather forecast for the same location. Whenever a message …
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