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Dark Sky API Replacement Recommendation?

Since Apple bought Dark Sky, What are some replacement option API serves that I/Others can use to develop with. Would need History, Daily, Now, and Forecast...

If this belongs on StackExchange, let me know and I will remove it and post it there.

Note: API serves on Dark Sky is suppose to go away at the end of 2021....

Upvotes: 5

Views: 2778

Answers (2)

Ginger
Ginger

Reputation: 61

Sorry for the late response, but it may help someone who finds this via search.

I've has good luck with Visual Crossing Weather. They've updated their plans to include one that mirrors the Dark Sky pricing model. It offers 1000 free records per day and $0.0001 pricing beyond that just like Dark Sky. Their API is a little different from the Dark Sky single call, but it has all of the same weather data including global history, current conditions, and forecasts. They have an article about how to convert here: https://www.visualcrossing.com/resources/documentation/weather-api/how-to-replace-the-dark-sky-api/ and the "Dark Sky" pricing plan is called "Pay-as-you-go".

Upvotes: 6

Bronislava
Bronislava

Reputation: 21

I wasn't sure if you already knew or not but OpenWeather is offering One Call API. The great feature about this is that you only have to make one API call in order to get the essential weather data (current, hourly and daily forecast).

It's also totally free to sign up so there's no subscription and it gives you 1000 API calls per day.

Here is a guide about migration from Dark Sky API to OpenWeather https://openweathermap.org/darksky-openweather

Upvotes: 2

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