Bug 1270604

After registering at openweathermap.org and entering my personal API key in the preferences under Weather provider/Personal Api key from openweather.org, it's working again.

I had to create a similar account at forecast.io in order to use that server, so they both changed policy at about the same time. Are the two sites related?

> I had to create a similar account at forecast.io in order to use that
> server, so they both changed policy at about the same time. Are the two
> sites related?
Forecast.io needed an api-key since I added them to the extension, but the service seems to be more stable and more precise, at least for the locations I use (several cities and small villages in germany over the year, depending on my work).

Openweathermap.org does no longer provide access without an api-key.
In the past they recommended it, now it's required.
The new version in the repo has an updated Readme.md in the docs, that reflects this.
Unfortunately, I can not do anything to work around this.

If anybody knows an xml-parser, that can be used from a gnome-shell-extension, I'll be happy to add met.no (yr.no) (In reply to Andre Robatino from comment #2)

I thought that I had tried forecast.io without an API key before and that it worked, but I'm not sure. Anyway, I'm set now with accounts for both sites for redundancy. Since both sites now require an API key, if forecast.io is better you could make that one the default. Thanks for the info.

Is there a way to get an API key without account?

(In reply to Florian Heiser from comment #5)
> Is there a way to get an API key without account?

Unfortunately not (as far as I know).
I would prefer something like a bulk api-key per application, but that would render the api-key useless I think.

Any ideas for other (free, of course) weather-providers are welcome, the same is for an xmlparser I can use inside a gnome-shell-extension.
I hope I find a working standalone xml2json-script, that does not require nodejs, a browser or whatever.

Hi Jens, 
wanted to drop a big Dankeschön to you for coding this extension! I like it a lot - I guess the entire Gnome community does...
Thanks!

For the last couple of hours, at least, the forecast from forecast.io does not load. If I switch over to openweathermap.org, it works immediately. (Using an API key with both.) It might be better to keep the latter as the default provider.

I already uploaded a fixed version.
It seems that forecast.io no longer allows non-https requests.

For the openweathermap-key, see: https://github.com/jenslody/gnome-shell-extension-openweather/issues/77#issuecomment-148759094

gnome-shell-extension-openweather-1-0.9.20151108gite4dbfee.fc23 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 23. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-398b4f8a1f

gnome-shell-extension-openweather-1-0.9.20151108gite4dbfee.fc22 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 22. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-25707d4952

gnome-shell-extension-openweather-1-0.9.20151108gite4dbfee.fc21 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 21. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-e01c272a9b

gnome-shell-extension-openweather-1-0.10.20151108git6368d32.fc23 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 23. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-79ea436c7c

gnome-shell-extension-openweather-1-0.10.20151108git6368d32.fc22 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 22. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-622a7320cf

gnome-shell-extension-openweather-1-0.10.20151108git6368d32.fc21 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 21. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-951169dc7a

gnome-shell-extension-openweather-1-0.10.20151108git6368d32.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
If you want to test the update, you can install it with
$ su -c 'dnf --enablerepo=updates-testing update gnome-shell-extension-openweather'
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-951169dc7a

gnome-shell-extension-openweather-1-0.10.20151108git6368d32.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
If you want to test the update, you can install it with
$ su -c 'dnf --enablerepo=updates-testing update gnome-shell-extension-openweather'
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-622a7320cf

gnome-shell-extension-openweather-1-0.10.20151108git6368d32.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
If you want to test the update, you can install it with
$ su -c 'dnf --enablerepo=updates-testing update gnome-shell-extension-openweather'
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-79ea436c7c

The new version does not need an API-key from openweathermap.org.
It ships with a default key, that was added to the FOSS-whitelist from openweathermap.org.

gnome-shell-extension-openweather-1-0.10.20151108git6368d32.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

gnome-shell-extension-openweather-1-0.10.20151108git6368d32.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

gnome-shell-extension-openweather-1-0.10.20151108git6368d32.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.