Weather underground closing API

[mobisat]

I received an email from weather underground today

 

The WU API has been around since 2010 to help you develop apps and websites as well as manage your Personal Weather Station data. During that time, we've watched you build amazing products and visualize weather data with creativity and purpose. 

Over the years, our infrastructure has been unable to keep up with the growing numbers of users coming to us for API data. This has led to higher costs as we worked to keep the service stable and dependable. Eventually, we realized we'd need to make drastic changes or risk serious problems for our API. 

As a result, we've made the difficult decision to retire the Weather Underground API. The Weather Company, which acquired WU back in 2012, offers a powerful suite of enterprise-grade APIs that might be better suited to meet your scale and performance needs while offering a broader range of weather data. You can see these products here. 

Here's what you need to know going forward: 

Your subscriptions, and therefore access, will continue to work through 12/31/2018.

If you are a paying WU API customer, you will receive a call from a representative from The Weather Company, and IBM business, to discuss transition options to other API services. If you'd like to have these conversations sooner, contact us.

If you are a Personal Weather Station owner, you will receive more information about our plan to offer free access to the data you provide to Weather Underground. We'll reach out once that plan has been finalized.

For developers who use WU API data for non-commercial purposes, you will have access to a new plan for a personal use, low call volume API. Stay tuned for more details as we build this out.

The WU Forum will continue to be the best place to connect, keep you informed, share your feedback and get your questions answered as we go through this process.

We are grateful for your commitment to Weather Underground and appreciate your understanding and support as we work through this process. These changes will allow us to continually improve our services and develop new features to keep WU a thriving place for you for many years to come. 

Thanks for being part of the community! 
Sincerely, 
The WU Team

 

[EddyG]

See: viewtopic.php?f=12&t=25013&hilit=weather+underground

I already switched to Darksky and eventually to Buienradar.

[GSV3Miac]

The new WU API seems to be vaporware so far. How stupid do you have to be to pull the plug on the old one before the replacement is up, running, and fully tested.

[gizmocuz]

From the mails i received it seams the old API/Users should continue but maybe with a less number of requests/day
Also my WU setup still provides data

[LouiS22]

From the mails i received it seams the old API/Users should continue but maybe with a less number of requests/day
Also my WU setup still provides data

I'm having connection problems to the WU data, though I'm also a PWS owner and providing data.

[Kifo]

Already 3 days over the deadline and I still get data from Weather Underground through the API.
Maybe this is a good sign...
Hopefully!

[LouiS22]

Already 3 days over the deadline and I still get data from Weather Underground through the API.
Maybe this is a good sign...
Hopefully!

I've noticed that the PWS i used haven't updated the data - that's why I won't get anything. Also my plan is changed to something subscribed or so (note I provide my PWS's data into the WU network).

[Samael]

It is over.

https://apicommunity.wunderground.com/w ... api-update

My API key was disabled manually by WU team.

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2019-03-05 22:08:31.706 Error: WUnderground: Error: this key is not valid due to exceeding rate plan
2019-03-05 22:18:35.259 Error: WUnderground: Error: this key is not valid due to exceeding rate plan
2019-03-05 22:28:38.999 Error: WUnderground: Error: this key is not valid due to exceeding rate plan
2019-03-05 22:38:42.707 Error: WUnderground: Error: this key is not valid due to exceeding rate plan
2019-03-05 22:48:46.431 Error: WUnderground: Error: this key is not valid due to exceeding rate plan

[pawel]

Any news on the "personal use, low call volume API" from WU? Thanks,