I'm looking for the best (free/cheap) international weather PHP API out there. Any suggestions?
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What do you want to do with the data?
If you just want to display it, look for a weather site with an RSS feed. Then you can easily request it, cache it on your server and parse it.
For requesting, use cURL or file_get_contents() (if your php.ini allows it).
For caching, just check filemtime() and make a comparison.
To parse it, use SimpleXML.
alex
2010-03-23 08:24:28
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Yahoo Weather or Google Weather are both fast and free. I've used Google the most, you can use both city name or latitude/longitude to collect data.
Worth noting is that Google doesn't really provide an API and is undocumented, so no one knows the future of it.
Björn
2010-03-23 08:25:10
Thanks! But the Yahoo Weather API. Is it possible to make a search engine for it? I see you need to use a unique WOEID in the URL like this; http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?w=locatio to get the right location. This works great if all users on my site only have one Weather feed. But is it possible to make a search engine (with PHP) so that the users can costumize the location?
cvack
2010-03-24 07:22:51
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look in this answer :
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/507441/best-weather-apis
the chosen answer give this :
•The National Weather Service has a SOAP Web service.
•Yahoo has a weather RSS feed.
•Animaonline is a weather API powered by Google. There are code samples and tutorial links on the project page, but I found another tutorial here.
Haim Evgi
2010-03-23 08:25:59