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Can confirm pirateweather.net's forecast API working as a drop-in replacement for DarkSky's. I was able to fix a soon to be broken DarkSky bitbar script by just
by pca2 4y ago
Can confirm pirateweather.net's forecast API working as a drop-in replacement for DarkSky's. I was able to fix a soon to be broken DarkSky bitbar script by just replacing the URLs/API keys to pirateweather's in under 5 minutes.
- nerdponx 4y agoI assume there's no recourse for iOS users?
- aendruk 4y agoDo you run BitBar on iOS?
- jagged-chisel 4y agoAny particular reason you couldn’t do the same? Just replace URLs.
- justusthane 4y agoI think they're asking about continuing to use the DarkSky app. In which case, no. The new Weather app in iOS 16 does add some DarkSky features, but I don't think it's as good.
- jagged-chisel 4y agoTotally read “users” as “developers.” Thanks for straightening out my brain :)
- shagie 4y agoIf you are using the current version of iOS, the new weather app rocks in terms of functionality (IMHO better than the previous version of Dark Sky). If you are on an old version of iOS and mourn the loss of DarkSky app, I personally like MyRadar - it has some very nice features and I used in tandem with DarkSky in the past. If you are after writing an iOS app, you already have an Apple developer account allowing for 500k calls/month. If you are after writing an iOS app and want to use DarkSky rather than WeatherKit, Pirate Weather should also be a drop in replacement.
- macintux 4y agoThe new iOS Weather app certainly has lots of functionality, lots of data, but I mourn the clean, streamlined Dark Sky interface. Plus the temperature map, unlike the radar map, no longer allows you to change to a future date/time to see how the temperature changes are going to progress across a larger region, which I always found interesting. Very unfortunate.
- antihero 4y agoAlso the live map just looks weird and interpolated now.
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- cjrp 4y agoI've switched to Carrot and paid to enable "layouts"; they have a very Dark Sky-esque one.
- sbate1987 4y agoI like Carrot also - it has a lot of options to play with if you subscribe for it - They run sales esp year end sales if you can wait 11 months. You can also change the weather sources or api like Foreca and DarkSky and apple weather as well so maybe this Pirate one will be in there as well. I did not like the free version - I LOVED dark sky it was point of contention with the wife as accuweather was more accurate for planning. Peace.
- shagie 4y agoHaving just downloaded and poked at it, it looks very nice and familiar for those who want a Dark Sky type interface. The "oh, that's a feature I'd like" comes at a bit of "that's behind an IAP", but I suspect I'll be adding it to my weather section. Thank you for introducing me to it.
- rootusrootus 4y agoiOS Weather is pretty nice. But I can't quite love it, because it frequently tells my wife and I different values for current temperature, all while proclaiming to be giving data for the same small city. I can manually program the city in and get it to do the same thing. Hard to trust it. Also, it's almost always wrong with rain predictions. But so was Dark Sky, so that's fair.
- dzhiurgis 4y ago> I was able to fix a soon to be broken DarkSky bitbar script Please fork it for us lazy ones
- pca2 4y agoPull request opened https://github.com/matryer/xbar-plugins/pull/1896 https://github.com/matryer/xbar-plugins/pull/1896
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- nomilk 4y agoThanks to your comment, I also updated an app that had stopped working since DarkSky shutdown, and also had it going in 5 minutes.