Where can you find high quality Historical Weather Data at a low cost?
Finding weather data on the internet is easy. While finding historical weather data is a little more difficult, there are various places to find data including free consumer sites, government data feeds, and commercial services and APIs. However, the easiest data sources to find tend to be the hardest to use and the least complete. …
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Building and Running your first weather API query
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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How to show weather data in an Outlook add-in
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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Replacing the Google Weather API
Although Google disabled their weather API some time ago (except on their Android platform), many developers continue to struggle to find a good replacement option that is both free for standard users and has a powerful forecast and rich history API. With the release of Visual Crossing Weather’s Timeline Weather API, there is now an …
Five Easy Weather API calls to Get The Weather Data You Need
The Visual Crossing Weather API is a rich, restful API that you can use to get historical weather data, weather forecast data and even climate data sets into your database, analysis tool or coding project. The API has a rich set of parameters that may be overwhelming at first. In this blog, i describe the …
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How to make a WordPress plugin that uses shortcodes to show the weather forecast
Note – If you want to use this plugin right away, you can download the ready-to-install version from the WordPress plugins directory. WordPress is a hugely popular content management system used by hundreds of millions of sites across the internet to build websites and blogs. In fact, it bills itself as “the world’s most popular …
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How can I load historical weather data using Google Apps Script?
Google Apps Script also known as Apps Script or sometimes Google Script, is a scripting language based on JavaScript and used within Google’s G Suite applications. Although it started life as a side project within Google Sheets, today it is used as a scripting language within all of the Google apps family including Google Sheets, …
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Weather Forecast Widget Implementation Guide
The weather forecast widget displays up to a 15-day weather forecast in a horizontal, scrollable layout. The forecast widget uses data from the Weather API along with HTML, Javascript and CSS technologies to create the widget. Source code Full source code for the widget can be found on our Github. Technologies – Weather API, HTML, …
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How can I replace the Dark Sky API?
Visual Crossing Weather is the perfect alternative to the Dark Sky API. We not only have a superior weather API solution, but we can help you migrate your application to our API before Dark Sky turns off its API.