End of Service for WU API

[philiporlando]

Weather Underground API's End of Service Announcement

It seems like the only way to access WU data moving forward is through The Weather Company's API 👎.

Do you plan to update the rwunderground package to accommodate for this shift?

[erichare]

Hi Philip,

We have no plans at this time, but as time permits we would love to... we depend on this data too so its a pretty big shame they're shutting it down. If you were interested in helping out please let us know... main issue right now is a lack of people involved.

[inchga]

Do you plan on updating rwunderground? I have to use my stations weather data in R and am a bit lost without rwunderground..

[ALShum]

Are there particular end points that need to be updated? I’ll be glad to take a look if you can help point out the things that should be updated 😀

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[inchga]

Thank you! That would be great!
I think it might be due to the fact that wunderground has changed the API structures? E.g. the only forecast available is 5 days now. No matter what I try, I always receive 503 error message.

> weather_data<-history(set_location(PWS_id = my_weather_station), date = "20200701")
Error in wunderground_request(request_type = "history", location = location,  : 
  Service Unavailable (HTTP 503)

Or maybe I am doing something wrong?

Are there particular end points that need to be updated? I’ll be glad to take a look if you can help point out the things that should be updated 😀
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[jhanarato]

G'day,

I'm new to R, but this python API seems to work fine:

WUndergroundPWS-API

Perhaps that might help.

[Karlheinzniebuhr]

You might want to look into this for historical weather data from Wunderground The Weather Scraper

[marine-ecologist]

Thank you! That would be great! I think it might be due to the fact that wunderground has changed the API structures? E.g. the only forecast available is 5 days now. No matter what I try, I always receive 503 error message.

> weather_data<-history(set_location(PWS_id = my_weather_station), date = "20200701")
Error in wunderground_request(request_type = "history", location = location,  : 
  Service Unavailable (HTTP 503)

Or maybe I am doing something wrong?

Are there particular end points that need to be updated? I’ll be glad to take a look if you can help point out the things that should be updated 😀
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+1 for this. rwunderground was fantastic for pulling historical weather data into R. I've registered a new API key with rwunderground, but get the same response when accessing historical data:

history_daily(set_location(PWS_id="XXXX"), date = "20220228", use_metric = TRUE, key = "5cada823ef8e4f39ada843ef8e4f312d", raw = FALSE, message = TRUE)

@ALShum if there's anything I can do to help get the functions back online, please let me know!

[Boris-Droz]

Hi all,
does someone figure out at the end "how to get data from WU"?
I was so nice to get data a few years ago.
I tried a couple of thing in R but always get the 503 error.
I also tried the python script that jhanarato tell us, but I get :
wunderground_pws.exceptions.BadRequestError: [{'error': {'code': 'CDN-0001', 'message': 'Invalid apiKey.'}}]
I pretty new with python so I don't know what is the problem.
Thank you for any tips or idea