WeatherIn ?? Simple Weather

[DJay]

Looking for a workflow that just shows the conditions/temperature in a city I type in.

Just like "weatherin madrid"

There already is a weather workflow from david (thx for that) http://www.alfredforum.com/topic/193-weather-workflow-with-conditions-and-forecast/

But its not that "light" as I expected. Just to see the wether of the city I type in. 

I can't remember but I thought there was something in Alfred V1 but can't find it.

 

Any Idea or creative mind for a Alfred V2 Workflow?

 

Cheers

DJay

[jdfwarrior]

Looking for a workflow that just shows the conditions/temperature in a city I type in.

Just like "weatherin madrid"

There already is a weather workflow from david (thx for that) http://www.alfredforum.com/topic/193-weather-workflow-with-conditions-and-forecast/

But its not that "light" as I expected. Just to see the wether of the city I type in. 

I can't remember but I thought there was something in Alfred V1 but can't find it.

 

Any Idea or creative mind for a Alfred V2 Workflow?

 

Cheers

DJay

 

The primary weather workflow for v1 was mine as well

 

I could add "weatherin" to the one for v2, the only thing that worries me is that, using WeatherUnderground as a source, you are limited to 10 calls per minute, or 500 total calls per day on the free account. If I add weatherin, there may be a LOT more calls being made. Right now, the only reason that they haven't killed off the API key is because I hadn't used it in quite some time. Each month that you don't exceed either of those limits, you get an extra "raindrop". A raindrop is like a, "oops, you went over but you have a raindrop so we'll let you keep going for now". I still have 22 more, but I've already used 4-5 since Alfred launched. I know it will slow down some as Alfred progresses. Everyone is downloading and testing stuff and such right now so I expected usage to be higher. 

 

Back to the issue at hand though, if I stay with WeatherUnderground, I'm kinda scared that adding a WeatherIn command will cause usage to spike a little more and eventually end up getting the API key shut off unless I have a paid subscription to their API. The bottom of the line subscription would be more than plenty to run this workflow, but would cost me $20 a month. If users gave donations or paid for the workflow, I may could sustain that and add all kinds of things. For instance, I could allow you to set a group of favorite locations and you could check them all at once, see more forecast data, get weather alerts, etc. But, it requires funding. I could try to look for another weather source but a LOT of them are switching to paid subscriptions to their API, which sucks for us..

 

What are your thoughts on this?

 

Would be cool if I even had a small group of people to be willing to give a recurring $1/mon to help fund it.

[DJay]

sounds good david. and of course you don't have to pay for something other people love to use.

but what about other free weather apis? a couple of years ago I a colleague of mine needs a weather api for something.

I think he was using http://goo.gl/DHJ38

 

How about playing around with this. the main thing is that it works for germany I hope.   

 

• Commercial/Non-commercial Use
• 500 request per hour

Edited March 23, 2013 by DJay

[jdfwarrior]

sounds good david. and of course you don't have to pay for something other people love to use.

but what about other free weather apis? a couple of years ago I a colleague of mine needs a weather api for something.

I think he was using http://goo.gl/DHJ38

 

How about playing around with this. the main thing is that it works for germany I hope.   

 

• Commercial/Non-commercial Use
• 500 request per hour

 

I'll check into it when I get a chance. Thanks.

[DJay]

Or maybe http://forecast.io with their API is also a possibility. https://developer.darkskyapp.com

btw. forecast.io is a great stylish weather site I absolutely can recommend. 

Edited March 27, 2013 by DJay

[jdfwarrior]

Or maybe http://forecast.io with their API is also a possibility. https://developer.darkskyapp.com

btw. forecast.io is a great stylish weather site I absolutely can recommend. 

 

Yeah I saw it came out yesterday. I'll look into migrating to it. It provides more daily API calls. I may still use WeatherUnderground for searching for locations. Didn't notice where DarkSky/Forecast.io provided that.