[horde] Weather Underground API

[Arjen de Korte]

Citeren Michael J Rubinsky <mrubinsk at horde.org>:

> Quoting Arjen de Korte <build+horde at de-korte.org>:
>
>> Citeren Michael J Rubinsky <mrubinsk at horde.org>:
>>
>>> Quoting Arjen de Korte <build+horde at de-korte.org>:
>>>
>>>> If you've used the Weather Underground API for displaying weather  
>>>> info and wonder why it no longer works:
>>>>
>>>>   
>>>> https://apicommunity.wunderground.com/weatherapi/topics/end-of-feb-wu-api-update
>>>>
>>>> There doesn't seem to be an option for a free API key anymore, so  
>>>> this probably needs an update in the the Horde configuration as  
>>>> well.
>>>
>>> Ugh. We should just remove support for WU completely. It's not  
>>> only no longer free, but it's completely gone. Replaced by a  
>>> completely different API specifically for owners of personal  
>>> weather stations, with less focus on forecasting. The non-free API  
>>> is the parent company's, The Weather Company, expensive  
>>> subscription service. Not a fit for Horde. Either way, the  
>>> existing WU driver is useless.
>>>
>>> Looks like the other driver I wrote for World Weather Online has  
>>> also done away with their free service.
>>>
>>> Looks like it's time to once again change out Horde's weather  
>>> service drivers. Sigh.
>>
>> https://openweathermap.org/ might be an option. They have free API  
>> keys with reasonable limits.
>
> Yeah, we actually already have an older Owm driver in  
> Horde_Service_Weather, but it, too, is outdated. I'll probably try  
> to get that one at least minimally working, as well as the existing  
> WWO driver, since the subscription price on that one is cheap. I was  
> also looking at darksky.net as an option.

The link back requirements for the $ 5/month World Weather Online  
accounts suck however:

https://discuss.worldweatheronline.com/t/free-premium-weather-api-link-back-requirement/214

For non-public Horde installations, the domain authority is a  
showstopper and the requirement that the link-back is publicly  
accessible will probably require that the link is placed on the login  
page. Not nice.

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