Replacing the Google Weather API
Although Google disabled their weather API years ago (except on their Android platform), many users and developers continue to struggle to find a good weather API option that is both free for basic and personal use cases and has the power of a full 15-day forecast and rich history API that can pull from decades …
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.
How to build a great Weather Dashboard
Dashboards are one of the most effective ways to communicate data to users. Originating, from the dashboard in cars and vehicles, data dashboards typically combine multiple data visualization elements such as charts, maps, grids and KPIs to provide users with a fast, concise, and clear way to interpret a set of data. For businesses, organizations …
How to debug problems when running weather API queries in code
This article provides suggestions on how to troubleshoot and resolve some of the common problems we see people when people attempt to run weather API queries in code. The suggestions are listed in order that you should use to troubleshoot any problems. Does the query run in a browser? If your Weather API query doesn’t …
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How to use CORS with a RESTful Weather API
If you are creating a web page that needs to display weather data using client side code such as JavaScript, you may find that your browser blocks the request to the Weather API. Today we discuss how the Timeline Weather API makes solving this easy and painless. How? Because the API supports reading the weather …
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How to find a Weather API for your hackathon
If you are running, or submitting an entry to, a hackathon, you may find yourself needing a weather API to retrieve weather data. The Visual Crossing Weather API is the perfect API for hackathons as it provides free access and rich features. The Weather API offers hourly historical weather data, 16-day weather forecasts and future …
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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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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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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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