WeatherAPI is a simple abstraction atop one or many free weather services.
If you're using maven, simply add a dependency for net.johnluetke.WeatherAPI:
<dependency>
<groupId>net.johnluetke.WeatherAPI</groupId>
<artifactId>WeatherAPI</artifactId>
<version>0.9.4</version>
</dependency>
For a list of version numbers, see the Releases section
If you're not using Maven or are using .NET, download the .jar or .dll from my artifacts repository.
Also make sure to download the required dependencies! They can be found in the file ending in .dependencies
using WeatherAPI;
IWeather seattle;
// You can get the weather for a city and state ...
seattle = WeatherAPI.GetWeather("Seattle", "WA");
// ... for an Airport code ...
seattle = WeatherAPI.GetWeather("SEA");
// ... for a ZIP code ...
seattle = WeatherAPI.GetWeather(98158);
// ... or for a set of latitude and longitude coordinates
seattle = WeatherAPI.GetWeather(47.44443, -122.300497);
import WeatherAPI.*;
IWeather seattle;
// You can get the weather for a city and state ...
seattle = WeatherAPI.GetWeather("Seattle", "WA");
// ... for an Airport code ...
seattle = WeatherAPI.GetWeather("SEA");
// ... for a ZIP code ...
seattle = WeatherAPI.GetWeather(98158);
// ... or for a set of latitude and longitude coordinates
seattle = WeatherAPI.GetWeather(47.44443, -122.300497);
WeatherAPI abstracts free weather services into a simple to use API. You will need to register with the supported services and obtain an API key for them, should you choose to use them. You can use all or none of the supported services.
- Consult the Providers wiki page
WeatherAPI is built in a provider-agnostic way. That is, it is not tightly coupled to any one specific source of data. It obtains data by means of providers, which are tightly coupled, but return the data from thier source in a class that adheres to the IWeather interface. It's up to the provider to take the location information provided by the user, parse it into a useable format, call the service and parse the data.
WeatherAPI provides an abstract class for providers to derive from: WeatherProvider. All providers must inherit this class in order to be discovered.
Since WeatherAPI is written in C# and Java, it can easily be used on any mobile platform that supports those languages. Out of the box, this is just Windows Phone and Android. However, with commercial tools such as MonoTouch, WeatherAPI can be used by iOS as well.
WeatherAPI will search for WeatherAPI.dll.config on the in the application directory. Take a look at src/main/config/WeatherAPI.dll.config for an example.
WeatherAPI will search for WeatherAPI.properties on the classpath. Take a look at src/main/config/WeatherAPI.properties for an example.