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Google Pulls Access To Unsupported But Popular Weather API

Posted by Unknown on from the we-did-it-because-we-love-you dept.

New submitter drsmack1 writes with news of some bummed out programmers losing access to an undocumented Google API. From the article: "The curious popularity of the Google Weather API appears to be coming to a close. The search giant never officially supported the feature, but developers have used the unofficial feed available from the iGoogle homepage. With iGoogle now set for deprecation in November, developers are reporting that the once simple weather API is no longer returning data." Seems like the sort of thing you could replace with a tiny bit of XSLT.

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  1. Re:I wish Google would have warned us... by Zapotek · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Going the extra mile and notifying the users would have undoubtedly made a good impression but this situation resembles someone grepping a website for QOTDs and then complaining that his regexp no longer works because the site's HTML code changed or the quotes were removed altogether. Bottom line is, tough luck. When something is not supported then it's not supported, how much clearer can you get?

  2. Wait, you're using an unsupported API... by ducomputergeek · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And then complaining when said API disappears? For the US at least NOAA offers a pretty nice REST/XML API that's free and even comes with icons you can link to if building a webpage or app.

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  3. Re:Any alternative? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Beliving in global warming doesn't automatically make you a "fanatic." Stop being an asshole.

  4. Lies! by tweir · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There is no such thing as "a tiny bit of XSLT".