Weather service not working anymore?

[admin]

Since there's no response from Yahoo we suggest using https://apixu.com instead. You will have to create a free account and make sure that your script does not fetch data too quickly (not less than once in 5 minutes).

Here's a short example, change key variable to your API key, location variable to required location in textual form. This example fetches current weather condition and forecast for today and tomorrow. Fields can be found in apixu documentation: https://www.apixu.com/doc/forecast.aspx (day Element).

Code:

require('json')
https = require('ssl.https')
escape = require('socket.url').escape

key = 'my_api_key'
location = 'my location name'

url = 'https://api.apixu.com/v1/forecast.json?key=%s&q=%s&days=2'
url = string.format(url, key, escape(location))

res = https.request(url)

data = json.pdecode(res)
if type(data) ~= 'table' then
  alert('failed to load weather data')
  return
end

if data.error then
  log('error', data.error)
  return
end

current = data.current
today = data.forecast.forecastday[ 1 ].day
tomorrow = data.forecast.forecastday[ 2 ].day

-- log(current, today, tomorrow)

-- temperature in C
grp.write('32/1/1', current.temp_c)
-- "feels like" temperature in C
grp.write('32/1/2', current.feelslike_c)
-- humidity as percentage
grp.write('32/1/3', current.humidity)
-- wind speed in kilometers per hour
grp.write('32/1/4', current.wind_kph)
-- uv index
grp.write('32/1/5', current.uv)
-- weather condition text
grp.write('32/1/6', current.condition.text)
-- pressure in millibars
grp.write('32/1/7', current.pressure_mb)
-- precipitation amount in millimeters
grp.write('32/1/8', current.precip_mm)

-- minimum temperature in celsius for the day
grp.write('32/2/1', today.mintemp_c)
-- maximum temperature in celsius for the day
grp.write('32/2/2', today.maxtemp_c)
-- average temperature in celsius for the day
grp.write('32/2/3', today.avgtemp_c)
-- average humidity as percentage
grp.write('32/2/4', today.avghumidity)
-- maximum wind speed in kilometers per hour
grp.write('32/2/5', today.maxwind_kph)
-- uv index
grp.write('32/2/6', today.uv)
-- weather condition text
grp.write('32/2/7', today.condition.text)
-- total precipitation in millimeters
grp.write('32/2/8', today.totalprecip_mm)

-- minimum temperature in celsius for the day
grp.write('32/3/1', tomorrow.mintemp_c)
-- maximum temperature in celsius for the day
grp.write('32/3/2', tomorrow.maxtemp_c)
-- average temperature in celsius for the day
grp.write('32/3/3', tomorrow.avgtemp_c)
-- average humidity as percentage
grp.write('32/3/4', tomorrow.avghumidity)
-- maximum wind speed in kilometers per hour
grp.write('32/3/5', tomorrow.maxwind_kph)
-- uv index
grp.write('32/3/6', tomorrow.uv)
-- weather condition text
grp.write('32/3/7', tomorrow.condition.text)
-- total precipitation in millimeters
grp.write('32/3/8', tomorrow.totalprecip_mm)