| I am writing this article to share my experience in | | | | find really useless). Whereas the World Weather |
| developing few websites for which I required free | | | | Online provides the weather by postcode, zipcode |
| weather. And in search of free weather I found | | | | and latitude and longitude. It delivers weather via |
| some very interesting and a lot of useless | | | | Get request using an API Key for which you need |
| websites. I was also surprised to see that many | | | | to register. The registration process is very quick |
| big players in the weather industry are not ready | | | | and easy. You simply need to verify your email |
| to let go the substantial amount of weather | | | | and in a minute you will have your unique API Key |
| content for free. | | | | with which you can start retrieving weather. They |
| Here I am going to share my experience about | | | | have also provided a section on their website |
| one of the weather website which I have used | | | | titled "Weather Feed API Request Builder" to test |
| and would highly recommend to other developers | | | | and learn on how to create web request, what |
| or webmasters who are in search for free | | | | parameters are required and they have even |
| weather data feed either in XML or CSV format. | | | | provided with the weather condition codes for |
| The website name is World Weather Online. | | | | download in xml and tab format, which lets the |
| According to the description on its website the | | | | user to use their own weather symbols or could |
| World Weather Online states, "World Weather | | | | use the weather symbol provided by them |
| Online is a website dedicated to provide quality | | | | through the image url in the feed returned. There |
| and reliable 5 day holiday weather forecast for | | | | is even a sample project with source code for |
| individuals, website owners or webmasters and | | | | Microsoft .Net Developer to test the system. |
| businesses for absolutely FREE. The forecast is | | | | In providing the information for free they do ask |
| delivered in simple to use formats like XML and | | | | for a link back from a website which you need to |
| CSV. The weather feed is delivered via our | | | | provide while registering for API Key. I think that's |
| Weather API which enables the developer to | | | | a reasonable request as they need to promote |
| create web request to get weather forecast for | | | | their website. But I am sure if you don't have a |
| a location via. Postcode, Zipcode or by using | | | | website and you request them by emailing to |
| Latitude and Longitude." | | | | exempt you they might do so. It is better to ask! |
| I have found it really generous in giving quality | | | | The support is via email and they are quick in |
| free weather for up to 5 days, in 2 formats XML | | | | answering any queries you have. |
| and CSV. If you compare that to Yahoo Weather | | | | Recently, they have refurbished their website and |
| you will see that Yahoo Weather provides only 2 | | | | also added approximately 2 million world cities and |
| day RSS Feed with very minimal weather | | | | town weather information. They plan to allow the |
| information and that too either through Zip Code | | | | city and town search through their API in the |
| or through the location id, which you have to find | | | | near future. |
| from the url on their weather website (which I | | | | |