[horde] Weather Underground API

[Arjen de Korte]

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

> Quoting 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 Horde_Service_Weather, but it, too, is outdated.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.
>
> Ah. Now I remember why I never added that driver to the Horde config  
> as an option. There is no way to search a location using that API.  
> You need to either know the "id" of the city you are looking for  
> (they have a list of id => city mappings you can download), or  
> basically hope that the results you get are for the city you typed  
> in, when the city name is not unique for your country. To make  
> matters worse, the results from the API only give back the city name  
> and lat/long, not the city/state/province etc... so you don't even  
> know you are may be looking at the wrong city if you don't use their  
> ID.

I wouldn't mind this. I had the location locked in  
horde/config/prefs.local.php anyway.

> Looks like we'll need some Horde_Map geocoding to go along with this.
>
>
>
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