Author Topic: Weather Underground V2 API not returning data outside the Americas  (Read 1133 times)

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Offline JulianB

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Hey there,

I have a small raspberryPi-based setup retrieving the current conditions using the prescribed web API calls listed in the docs. Some days ago near the beginning of June the V2 API stopped returning data. Is anybody else experiencing this outage?

I've tested API query strings included station codes for lots of places and now it's only returning data for North and South America, whereas previously it would return local stations happily enough.

Here's my example API string which returns info happily in this example for Battery Park NY:
https://api.weather.com/v2/pws/observations/current?stationId=KNYNEWYO1271&format=json&units=m&apiKey=<myKey>

And this one for Gatwick Airport near London UK, that... just.. returns nothing, not even an error code like 404:
https://api.weather.com/v2/pws/observations/current?stationId=EGKK&format=json&units=m&apiKey=<myKey>

The dashboard for that station is visible and displaying info: https://www.wunderground.com/weather/EGKK

I cannot find information about access changes or notifications regarding this, nor outage info. Does anyone know anything more?

any info appreciated - thanks in advance!

Julian

Offline JulianB

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Re: Weather Underground V2 API not returning data outside the Americas
« Reply #1 on: June 13, 2022, 05:34:14 PM »
Ok, so after some time this API has just started functioning again. Inb4 errrybody sez 'yeah you know, it's par for the course for WU eh'.

I should really look at supporting another API for when this inevitably happens again.

-j