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[balala]

- the "first" 1000 calls in a day, are free.

Which I think is completely enough for the purposes of a Rainmeter skin.

Let's see if I found the proper URL. takochako, can you confirm?

[FreeRaider]

takochako, are you using the following URL: URL=https://darksky.net/forecast/#Latitude#,#Longitude#/si24/en (where obviously the Latitude and Longitude variables must be defined properly in the [Variables] section)?

Balala have a look at https://darksky.net/dev/docs#data-sources

[balala]

Balala have a look at https://darksky.net/dev/docs#data-sources

Good point. There is a lot of things to be read there.

[takochako]

Interesting, Dark Sky is very interesting, only problem it requires a personal key, but:

- the "first" 1000 calls in a day, are free.
- you can personalize the data, include or exclude some.
- you have weather alerts.
- it's translated in many languages.

... and yes, jsmorley, it's a json encoded UTF-8.

Oh... crap... so after 1000 calls I pay or they cut me off? (Lol I started this as a simple meter to get me the current pollen levels, and decided to make a full on weather suite xD)

[balala]

so after 1000 calls I pay or they cut me off?

If fonpaolo is right, after 1000 calls per day. But 1000 calls per day is absolutely enough, I think. You don't have to update the skin so often.

[fonpaolo]

Which I think is completely enough for the purposes of a Rainmeter skin.
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I can think that's enough for almost everyone...
(let's do some math... 24 hours divided 1000 calls... it's an update in a little more than one minute!)

Oh... crap... so after 1000 calls I pay or they cut me off? (Lol I started this as a simple meter to get me the current pollen levels, and decided to make a full on weather suite xD)

I think you've to pay, but even in this case, it's not really expensive, it's $ 0.0001, unless you need an update every second!

[balala]

I think you've to pay, but even in this case, it's not really expensive, it's $ 0.0001, unless you need an update a second!

Yeah, but I think this is not a viable option for Rainmeter. Probably for such cases, you should log in, but this can't be achieved in Rainmeter.

[takochako]

I can think that's enough for almost everyone...
(let's do some math... 24 hours divided 1000 calls... it's an update in a little more than one minute!)


I think you've to pay, but even in this case, it's not really expensive, it's $ 0.0001, unless you need an update every second!

Dang it I just read it as "1000 calls" at first, not 1000 calls per day... I'm only updating it every 5 minutes.

[balala]

Dang it I just read it as "1000 calls" at first, not 1000 calls per day... I'm only updating it every 5 minutes.

Which means you won't achieve 1000 calls per day. Right?

[jsmorley]

One thing you might do is set Debug=2 on the parent WebParser measure and refresh the skin one time. That will give you a file WebParserDump.txt in the skin folder. Then change the URL to

URL=file://#CURRENTPATH#WebParserDump.txt

While you are designing and testing. That way you don't blow through your 1,000 free calls for the day while you are hammering it over and over to tweak the design.

When you are happy, then change the URL back.