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Google Pulls Access To Unsupported But Popular Weather API
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.
Just goes to show what happens when you let a bunch of faggots run your tech company.
Why write anything for/on Google if they're just going to pull it? Why is anybody giving them any support at all? Well, I suppose some people are making a quick buck, and I suppose they already know that long term service is just not an option. Eh... maybe it isn't so bad after all. The folks at Google are certainly not losing any sleep over it.
Few things seem more fickle than a web app, if that is what you can call this. I sure hope everybody is backing up the crap they keep in 'the cloud'.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
If you can trust the global warming fanatic that runs weather underground. I thought the name was a joke till I saw a blog post by him that showed he is not wholly a scientist but a true believer.
weather channel hasn't yet got it's shit together after being run by a bunch of frightwing religious assholes. Yea the assholes are gone but not enough of what is left has been bled white enough to make their stockholders decapitate them and fix things. They are trying but fuck are they slow.
accuweather tried to get their bought stooge senate whore to block access to publicly funded weather data to all but 'authorized weather professionals'
A better source is NOAA you paid for it and they are very friendly to the foss community. They have a LOT of ways to access the data.
Read my posts a little more carefully. My statement about immaturity was not aimed at their abandoning a particular product. It was about their pattern of not doing the boring stuff they need to do to make their products sustainable.