With the announcement of the NWS on 29-Apr-2019 that the api.weather.gov was deprecating the forecast queries for points/ and removing the current 302 redirect to a gridpoint forecast, the underlying method of using the API had to change in the script.
Now, the specified point's meta-data is fetched first (from cache if available, otherwise fetched from API and cached) and the gridpoint forecast is used directly (based on the meta-data content). The prior caching method (in ./cache/forecast-URLcache.txt) is no longer used (that had contained the point->gridpoint URLs).
Now the ./cache/forecast-{zone}-{N}-json-meta.txt file contains all the relevant data about the specified point that was derived from multiple API fetches re: point, Zone, WFO and saved.
If you're using the V5.10 script, please update before 24-Jun-2019 when the NWS will turn off the 302 redirect for the point forecast and that version of the script will likely fail to work properly.
Standalone update: use the script page for download.
Saratoga Template(USA): use the update tool page with query Base-USA, Plugin-*, 30-Apr-2019
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Updated advforecast2.php (JSON) V5.11 handles NWS API change
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Re: Updated advforecast2.php (JSON) V5.11 handles NWS API change
I really don't know how you've stayed on top of all the changes in nearly all of your 'fetch' scripts the last year !
I'd have given up and moved to a hole in the ground long since
Truly monumental work
I'd have given up and moved to a hole in the ground long since
Truly monumental work
......................Imagine, what you will KNOW tomorrow !
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Re: Updated advforecast2.php (JSON) V5.11 handles NWS API change
Thanks for the kind words!!
It has been a challenge, especially with the NOAA / NWS sites switching awkwardly to HTTPS, and the long-delayed conversion of weather.gov to a new format.
Sometimes, I hear the hole in the ground whispering softly to me... but, I'm not quite dead yet.
It has been a challenge, especially with the NOAA / NWS sites switching awkwardly to HTTPS, and the long-delayed conversion of weather.gov to a new format.
Sometimes, I hear the hole in the ground whispering softly to me... but, I'm not quite dead yet.
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Re: Updated advforecast2.php (JSON) V5.11 handles NWS API change
And I just updated it yesterday. Now knowing our Government ill wait till mid june to update cause poor Ken will be up to v5.18 by then
Thank you so much Ken.
Thank you so much Ken.
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