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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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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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The Visual Crossing Weather API provides a simple way to import weather data and climate information into applications and back end systems. In addition, the web services allow developers to easily integrate weather data into web sites and other development projects. This document explains the usage of the available web services including the input parameters …
This article describes how to retrieve weather data such as weather forecast, historical weather observations and historical climate summaries using an ODATA based request. What is ODATA and when should I use it? According to odata.org: OData (Open Data Protocol) is an ISO/IEC approved, OASIS standard that defines a set of best practices for building and consuming RESTful APIs. …
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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 …
This article describes the fastest way to get started with the Visual Crossing Weather API by constructing API queries using the Weather Data Services page. Steps Navigate to Visual Crossing Weather Data Services Log in to your account (create a free trial account if necessary) Add one or more locations Construct a weather forecast or weather …
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Visual Crossing provides the ability to retrieve up to 16 day forecasts for any world wide location based on address, zipcode/postcode or latitude and longitude. In this article we discuss how to retrieve the full weather forecast for multiple locations in a single request. This makes it easy to import weather forecast information for many …
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In this article we will describe how to use add the weather forecast to your web page. If you want to quickly add the weather forecast to your website with minimal code, then our free widget will give your website a weather forecast with almost no coding at all. If you are looking for a …
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