YahooWeather Example App No Longer Working

General
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In my desktop app, I access Yahoo Weather using WOEID, and it has been working great for about 2 years. Late last week, I noticed I was no longer reporting the weather. Xojo has an example app included that also accesses Yahoo Weather and that example is no longer working either. I was wondering if anyone else has had this problem? I don’t know whether the service is just down, or Yahoo has eliminated the service all together.

The current weather is important for my app, so I’m looking for a replacement. There is a link to the National Weather Service at:

[url=http://graphical.weather.gov/xml/#generate_it[/url]

But I don’t know how I could get this to work with Xojo.

There was an example app (Weather Retriever) posted by Michael Allen that accessed weather with a zip code. That worked really well until I realized it never updated the weather. I tried it again this morning and it reported a temperature of 57 degrees F. Its 38 degrees now where I am in Connecticut.

I was wondering if anyone knows what happened to Yahoo Weather or knows a different way to get weather conditions of a particular area. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

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This might help.

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It appears Yahoo changed some things on their end. This StackOverflow topic suggests changing the URL from “http://weather.yahooapis.com” to “http://xml.weather.yahoo.com”. That seemed to work for the Xojo example in my quick test.

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Thanks Paul. That worked perfectly. Its all working again. Just the url change did the trick. Also thank you Steve for that link. I really appreciate you both taking the time to help me.

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If there’s a Yahoo developer link, I would recommend signing up for it so that they notify you when they change their API.

I only found out that our Twitter support was broken when customers complained, because I hardly ever use Twitter and they don’t notify developers when their API changes. Facebook and Flickr do.

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Twitter makes too much profit, and has too many new customers, so they don’t have time to notify developers :wink:

Seriously, what are they thinking ? They are losing customers left and right, their stock is in disarray, and they don’t even care about third party apps ?