Support for WeatherBug API?

[jimjeffers]

Hey there,
I haven't had any issues using the gem with yahoo or google but the gem is consistently crashing when I attempt to use weatherbugs API. My client specifically wants to use weatherbug for their project. Doh!

I am going to submit a pull request for parsing the latitude and longitude. But my question here is regarding the weatherbug API in general. It looks like the API may have changed. In the documentation I was able to find this:

http://i.wxbug.net/REST/SP/getLiveWeatherRSS.aspx?api_key=xxxxx&stationid=<stationid>&UnitType=<UnitType>&OutputType=<OutputType>

However, it looks like the current implementation for weatherbug is possibly calling a deprecated API:

"http://#{@api_code}.api.wxbug.net/getLiveWeatherRSS.aspx"

With the new API I'm uncertain what to supply for the stationID and unit/output types. I'll do further research but we'll most likely need to update the WeatherBugCassette in the spec suite unless I'm missing something. Here is the current implementation's request and access denied response from WeatherBug:

--- !ruby/object:HTTP::Message
http_header: !ruby/object:HTTP::Message::Headers
  http_version: '1.1'
  body_size: 0
  chunked: false
  request_method: GET
  request_uri: !ruby/object:HTTPClient::Util::AddressableURI
    validation_deferred: false
    scheme: http
    normalized_scheme: 
    uri_string: 
    hash: 
    host: [filtered].api.wxbug.net
    authority: 
    normalized_host: 
    path: /getLiveWeatherRSS.aspx
    normalized_path: 
    query: ACode=[filtered]&OutputType=1&UnitType=1&lat=33.4483771&long=-112.0740373
    normalized_query: 
  request_query: 
  request_absolute_uri: 
  status_code: 200
  reason_phrase: OK
  body_type: 
  body_charset: 
  body_date: 
  body_encoding: !ruby/object:Encoding {}
  is_request: false
  header_item:
  - - Cache-Control
    - private
  - - Content-Type
    - text/html; charset=utf-8
  - - Date
    - Thu, 31 Oct 2013 20:27:33 GMT
  - - Server
    - Microsoft-IIS/7.5
  - - Set-Cookie
    - ASP.NET_SessionId=c2cudoyupsh5kwn40c2xecf4; path=/; HttpOnly
  - - X-AspNet-Version
    - 4.0.30319
  - - X-Powered-By
    - ASP.NET
  - - Content-Length
    - '13'
  - - Connection
    - keep-alive
  dumped: false
peer_cert: 
http_body: !ruby/object:HTTP::Message::Body
  body: Access Denied
  size: 0
  positions: 
  chunk_size: 

[gkop]

Fyi, weatherbug shut this API down last week. Their new API is here - http://api-portal.earthnetworks.com/ and there is a free plan available with 15K calls/month at 1 call/second.

[attack]

thanks @gkop, I will make the change this weekend

[attack]

moved issue to attack/barometer-weather_bug#1