Change to Yahoo! weather feed

[jsmorley]

It's gotten worse. The XML feed for Yahoo is now almost entirely unreliable as well. There isn't any real simple solution, but I think folks are going to have to migrate away from trying to use Yahoo Weather entirely. The company is clearly in its death-throes, and right now just flailing around like a wounded animal. They will soon be bought by some slash-and-burn corporate raider, and I expect things to only get worse before the inevitable end of Yahoo as a brand.

At this point we are complaining that lunch is late on the Titanic...

People might want to look at this skin:

https://forum.rainmeter.net/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=22152

Not that it is the world's best weather skin, nor that is is likely to be exactly what folks are looking for as a replacement for what they have, but it does have one strength as a resource. It has the regular expressions needed for the ENTIRE Weather.com feed, separated into bite-sized chunks so you can use as little or as much of it as you need for your skin.

The best advice I can give at this point is to get that skin, and take a look at how the main skin .ini file uses the regular expressions in the WXDataWeatherRegExp.inc include file in @Resources. While it won't be a simple plug-and-play to change your current Yahoo Weather skin to use it, it can be done.

[brinkeguthrie]

I like that skin you showed---but is there anyway to strip out everything but the CURRENT temp?

[jsmorley]

I like that skin you showed---but is there anyway to strip out everything but the CURRENT temp?

Sure. Edit it and change it.

[brinkeguthrie]

ok, well i don't have that skill set.

[becausebatman]

Hi jsmorley,

thanks for your update below regarding the current status of the Yahoo weather feed. I joined the forum just now to follow up on the same issue which I'm having as well.

i went ahead and changed the url to xml.weather.yahoo.com from yahooapis and everything was working perfectly fine only 1-2 days ago. However when I start up my system now, only the times and dates are displayed.

I have taken screen shots of my desktop here:

Before (all city names and weather status is showing):

http://i.imgur.com/M1m7SjS.png

Now (only time and date are showing):

http://i.imgur.com/ChZRR0g.png

Do you think this issue with Yahoo's weather feed will be fixed? or is it completely uncertain at this point?

Thanks for your help and advice!

It's gotten worse. The XML feed for Yahoo is now almost entirely unreliable as well. There isn't any real simple solution, but I think folks are going to have to migrate away from trying to use Yahoo Weather entirely. The company is clearly in its death-throes, and right now just flailing around like a wounded animal. They will soon be bought by some slash-and-burn corporate raider, and I expect things to only get worse before the inevitable end of Yahoo as a brand.

At this point we are complaining that lunch is late on the Titanic...

People might want to look at this skin:

https://forum.rainmeter.net/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=22152

Not that it is the world's best weather skin, nor that is is likely to be exactly what folks are looking for as a replacement for what they have, but it does have one strength as a resource. It has the regular expressions needed for the ENTIRE Weather.com feed, separated into bite-sized chunks so you can use as little or as much of it as you need for your skin.

The best advice I can give at this point is to get that skin, and take a look at how the main skin .ini file uses the regular expressions in the WXDataWeatherRegExp.inc include file in @Resources. While it won't be a simple plug-and-play to change your current Yahoo Weather skin to use it, it can be done.

[jsmorley]

Hi jsmorley,

thanks for your update below regarding the current status of the Yahoo weather feed. I joined the forum just now to follow up on the same issue which I'm having as well.

i went ahead and changed the url to xml.weather.yahoo.com from yahooapis and everything was working perfectly fine only 1-2 days ago. However when I start up my system now, only the times and dates are displayed.

I have taken screen shots of my desktop here:

Before (all city names and weather status is showing):

http://i.imgur.com/M1m7SjS.png

Now (only time and date are showing):

http://i.imgur.com/ChZRR0g.png

Do you think this issue with Yahoo's weather feed will be fixed? or is it completely uncertain at this point?

Thanks for your help and advice!

Yeah, the Yahoo feed is down for me now as well. It was up for at least part of yesterday, but it is just unreliable.

I would really consider switching to another feed, perhaps the Weather.com (WXData) feed I posted about, or Weather Underground or some other service. I really think Yahoo is on hold with the Suicide Hotline right now.

[rootdrl]

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[ChodaBoy]

Here's the fixed YahooWeather.inc for Enigma users... seems to be working for now, but let me know if there are any problems.

Thank you!

[Jayes]

So I'm using the CircuitousTwo weather skin and I changed it to the new formatting about 3 weeks ago but then about a week ago it just stopped working again just like before, any ideas?

[alexbond]

So I'm using the CircuitousTwo weather skin and I changed it to the new formatting about 3 weeks ago but then about a week ago it just stopped working again just like before, any ideas?

I fixed format for CircuitousTwo, worked part for yweather.ini

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[mWeather]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=WebParser
URL=https://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql?q=select%20*%20from%20weather.forecast%20where%20woeid=#woeid#%20AND%20u="#unit#"
RegExp=(?siU)<yweather:units.*temperature="(.*)".*<link>(.*)</link>.*<yweather:location.*city="(.*)".*<pubDate>(.*)</pubDate>.*<yweather:condition.*code="(.*)".*temp="(.*)".*text="(.*)".*code="(.*)".*high="(.*)".*low="(.*)".*text="(.*)"
ForceReload=1
UpdateRate=900

[mTitle]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=WebParser
URL=[mWeather]
StringIndex=3

[mLink]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=WebParser
URL=[mWeather]
StringIndex=2

[mPubDate]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=WebParser
URL=[mWeather]
StringIndex=4

[mTempUnit]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=WebParser
URL=[mWeather]
StringIndex=1

[mCurrentTemp]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=WebParser
URL=[mWeather]
StringIndex=6

[mCurrentCond]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=WebParser
URL=[mWeather]
StringIndex=7

[mCurrentCondCode]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=WebParser
URL=[mWeather]
StringIndex=8
//Substitute *

[mTodayLow]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=WebParser
URL=[mWeather]
StringIndex=10

[mTodayHigh]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=WebParser
URL=[mWeather]
StringIndex=9

[mTodayCond]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=WebParser
URL=[mWeather]
StringIndex=11

[mTodayCondCode]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=WebParser
URL=[mWeather]
StringIndex=8
//Substitute *