Google Weather API Feed Documentation
The base URL:
http://www.google.com/ig/api?
This is the base URL which can be extended with the following parameters:
The Weather parameter:
weather=location
Where location can be either a zip code (weather=24060); city name, state (weather=woodland,PA); city name, country (weather=london,england); or possibly others. Try it out and see what response you get back to test your location.
The language parameter:
hl=ISO 639-1 Language Code
For example, to get the weather for Paris, France in French, one would use the following URL:
http://www.google.com/ig/api?weather=paris,france&hl=fr
The Google Weather API is not an official public Google API so use it wisely. Also check out Yahoo’s Weather API for a more official, fully documented API.
what would be the ALL values for “condition data”?
possible parameter: countrycode (ISO 3166-2:2007) and zipcode, separated by comma e.g. weather=DE,10115
I would like to have a weather report on October16, 2008, February 23and 24, 2008.This report should include how many inch of rain on that day if any.Can I have this report as soon as possible.
I am appreciate your response. Thank you and have a happy holidays.
It’s not an official api so it’s not an official bug report
Do you mind adding “encoding=’UTF-8′”?
PS: API is simple, quick - I like it.
I don’t work for Google nor do I have any control over this API, I just documented it a bit to help out others…
So I can’t add your encoding for you, sorry
In discussion people say it is unofficial.
Do you know is it legible to use the API in a commercial project?
Is there any terms or restrictions on the API and the data?
@Arturro
Since the API is unofficial, there is no ToS or official restrictions. That being said, I would be very cautious to use this API in any project, let alone a commercial one.
Starting from 12th api is disabled
We can only hope for it to be temporary.
The API appears to still be working for me. Were you getting an error or something?
It’s not working for us either - I can request it manually and get data but I have it as a widget on my sites and it’s not able to display the data - it’s all blank.
[...] the pieces together reading several blogs / forums etc. More unofficial documentation can be found here Also, I never found a proper actionscript library that enables us to retreive this data. [...]
@Rob
It is possible that Google has become wise about people using this API and is blocking automated requests. If you can manually request from the same IP address, maybe look into playing with the user-agent (they may only allow browser’s user-agents).
Other than that, I would look into finding another data source such as Yahoo’s weather API.
Google rules because it gives data for the upcoming days’ weather.
And Yahoo just gives for the current day, and that’s it. If I’m mistaken, please let me know.
Yahoo is more preferable to use because it’s well documented and all the weather condition codes are known.
Google’s feed is a black box.
Thanks for the post!
Here a list of the Google Weather API condition,
http://www.blindmotion.com/?p=73
but i think some conditions are missing…
I’m still looking for the complete conditions list,
can you help me?
Unfortunately, I do not have a list of all the conditions. Sorry.
Hi,
can we fetch the forecast of multiple cities in single request?
Thanks.
running this api and requesting data on several cities, I got the following list of conditions.. there might be more though.
| Clear
| Cloudy
| Fog
| Haze
| Light rain
| Mostly Cloudy
| Overcast
| Partly Cloudy
| Rain
| Rain Showers
| Showers
| Thunderstorm
| Chance of Showers
| Chance of Snow
| Chance of Storm
| Mostly Sunny
| Partly Sunny
| Scattered Showers
| Sunny
Hi to all, I am interested in google weather api , because unlikely other weather services it provides the data in a well-ordered xml. Unfortunately I couldn’t get the api to return me the data for all of the region my site is about. Well basically, I created a loop for every city in Greece (this is the region I am working on) and sending a request a gather the info, or at least this is the idea. But google sent me an error massage that my program is acting as a virus or a spyware. Something that it is not. But… that’s google’s decision. So if someone has some idea how to fix this problem, I would appreciate if share it. Thank you in advance, have a nice day.
@Dimitar
It sounds like you have been requesting data from the weather API at a rate that makes you look like you are doing something evil. I would recommend adding rate limiting to your code which makes the requests. I would start with something like 1 request per minute and then cache those results so that every page view on your website is not hitting Google 100 times or whatever (if that is how it works).
As far as fixing the problem, when you view the weather API URL in your browser, do you have the option to enter a captcha? This is what Google does for search requests that look like spam? My only other suggestion would be to not access the weather API for a couple days and see if you ban has been lifted. Otherwise, I would recommend looking into another weather source such as Yahoo. Their format is standard as well so you should not have an issue parsing it.
Ok, Thank you once again.
1. Because of the (supposed) rate the website should be used and the times a user would refresh it it is not possible to use some time-restriction based algorithm.
2. So the solution is trying yahoo weather api. Or some other similar program.
3. But i hope that google would make some program solving my problem.
Have a nice day.
Hi, and really thank you… what you are suggesting, about the local storing of the data, I think could do. I would create such a script and calling the google api (I prefer the google api for the structure of the xml which reterns) would store a local file.
About what I am trying to do actually it should look like:
http://www.viamichelin.com/viamichelin/int/dyn/controller/Cartes
and then if you choose extra -> weather you will get the weather - this is my goal.
Thank you once again.
Have nice evening.