How do I make a call to the Yahoo hourly weather forecast API? - weather

Question

I have found yahoo weather forcast most helpful.
I'm able to get an hourly weather request here from Yahoo.
How can I make an API request for the above hourly weather report using an Yahoo API call to http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?w=2502265?
This is the documentation I found.

Answer 1

Yahoo Weather Api does not seem to support hourly forecasts, there are just a few parameters you have control over like the location in (woeid) or (lat, long) and the temperature-unit (u or f), refer here for yahoo query language.
You can use other api's AccuWeather for hourly details.

Answer 2

You can do using the REST API's of the programming language you want to use.. I will give Java example. (Similar thing applies to other languages too.. )'
package tests;
import org.apache.http.*;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;
import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;
/**
* A simple Java REST GET example using the Apache HTTP library.
* This executes a call against the Yahoo Weather API service, which is
* actually an RSS service (http://developer.yahoo.com/weather/).
*
* Try this Twitter API URL for another example (it returns JSON results):
* http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=%40apple
* (see this url for more twitter info: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/using-search)
*
* Apache HttpClient: http://hc.apache.org/httpclient-3.x/
*
*/
public class ApacheHttpRestClient1 {
public static void main(String[] args) {
DefaultHttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
try {
// specify the host, protocol, and port
HttpHost target = new HttpHost("weather.yahooapis.com", 80, "http");
// specify the get request
HttpGet getRequest = new HttpGet("/forecastrss?p=80020&u=f");
System.out.println("executing request to " + target);
HttpResponse httpResponse = httpclient.execute(target, getRequest);
HttpEntity entity = httpResponse.getEntity();
System.out.println("----------------------------------------");
System.out.println(httpResponse.getStatusLine());
Header[] headers = httpResponse.getAllHeaders();
for (int i = 0; i < headers.length; i++) {
System.out.println(headers[i]);
}
System.out.println("----------------------------------------");
if (entity != null) {
System.out.println(EntityUtils.toString(entity));
}
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} finally {
// When HttpClient instance is no longer needed,
// shut down the connection manager to ensure
// immediate deallocation of all system resources
httpclient.getConnectionManager().shutdown();
}
}
There are more ways to do the same... you can find many other alternate ways at http://alvinalexander.com/java/java-apache-httpclient-restful-client-examples