Adding option for OpenWeatherMap API

[billmcc1280]

What are the odds of adding the option for OpenWeatherMap API? We each would have to get our own API key of course. I am able to get yahoo weather about three out of every ten attempts.

Thanks!

[skiwithpete]

I'm not against it. Will you add it?

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[billmcc1280]

I will give it a valiant attempt. :)

[mat-v]

I've experienced the same problem. The issue with Yahoo returning null is also described here and in various other places.

I've been looking into using the wunderground API as a solution.
Unfortunately I am complete new in this area s it takes some time to figure things out.

After requesting a key from wunderground your request URL will look like this:
http://api.wunderground.com/api/41c***my API-key***/forecast/lang:EN/q/Germany/Berlin.json

And the response will look something like the code below.
It shouldn't be too hard to mod the get_weather_yahoo.py to read the correct data from the wunderground json file but I didn't try yet.

Hope this comment is off some value to you! Please keep us posted about the progress, I will do so too :)

{
  "response": {
  "version":"0.1",
  "termsofService":"http://www.wunderground.com/weather/api/d/terms.html",
  "features": {
  "forecast": 1
  }
	}
		,
	"forecast":{
		"txt_forecast": {
		"date":"9:48 AM CET",
		"forecastday": [
		{
		"period":0,
		"icon":"cloudy",
		"icon_url":"http://icons.wxug.com/i/c/k/cloudy.gif",
		"title":"Saturday",
		"fcttext":"Overcast. Temps nearly steady in the mid 30s. Winds light and variable.",
		"fcttext_metric":"Generally cloudy. High 2C. Winds light and variable.",
		"pop":"10"
		}
		,
		{
		"period":1,
		"icon":"nt_partlycloudy",
		"icon_url":"http://icons.wxug.com/i/c/k/nt_partlycloudy.gif",
		"title":"Saturday Night",
		"fcttext":"Mostly cloudy skies this evening will become partly cloudy after midnight. Widespread frost likely. Low 27F. Winds SE at 5 to 10 mph.",
		"fcttext_metric":"Considerable clouds this evening. Some decrease in clouds late. Widespread frost likely. Low -3C. Winds SE at 10 to 15 km/h.",
		"pop":"10"
		}
		,
		{
		"period":2,
		"icon":"partlycloudy",
		"icon_url":"http://icons.wxug.com/i/c/k/partlycloudy.gif",
		"title":"Sunday",
		"fcttext":"Partly cloudy skies. High 33F. Winds SE at 5 to 10 mph.",
		"fcttext_metric":"Partly cloudy skies. High 1C. Winds SE at 10 to 15 km/h.",
		"pop":"10"
		}
		,
		{
		"period":3,
		*** ETCETERA ***
	"epoch":"1485021600",
	"pretty":"7:00 PM CET on January 21, 2017",
	"day":21,
	"month":1,
	"year":2017,
	"yday":20,
	"hour":19,
	"min":"00",
	"sec":0,
	"isdst":"0",
	"monthname":"January",
	"monthname_short":"Jan",
	"weekday_short":"Sat",
	"weekday":"Saturday",
	"ampm":"PM",
	"tz_short":"CET",
	"tz_long":"Europe/Berlin"
},
		"period":1,
		"high": {
		"fahrenheit":"37",
		"celsius":"3"
		},
		"low": {
		"fahrenheit":"27",
		"celsius":"-3"
		},
		"conditions":"Overcast",
		"icon":"cloudy",
		"icon_url":"http://icons.wxug.com/i/c/k/cloudy.gif",
		"skyicon":"",
		"pop":10,
		"qpf_allday": {
		"in": 0.00,
		"mm": 0
		},
		*** ETCETERA ***