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by ShakataGaNai 1376 days ago
Apple announced the purchase of DarkSky back in 2020. The API was originally scheduled to be killed off sometime at the end of 2021 but that got extended. You also haven't been able to signup for a Dev account since May of 2020. There has been a lot of news about this which was kinda hard to miss.

And no, Apple is not interested in sharing its API's with anyone.
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happyopossum 1376 days ago
> And no, Apple is not interested in sharing its API's with anyone.

Funny how people will state ‘facts’ that match their internal perceptions, regardless of what’s been publicly stated over and over again.

Apple has released the WeatherKit API, which is privacy-first, and pretty much provides what Dark Sky did.

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ShakataGaNai 1375 days ago
I stand corrected on WeatherKit API.

My "internal perceptions", as you called them, was based on Apple's history. Not any Apple hate. The fact that they are opening something up is very cool, I'm glad to hear it. But a single open API does not address an overall very closed ecosystem.

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neurostimulant 1376 days ago
The API is only for apple devices, right? Web apps that uses Dark Sky's API (like the gp's webapp) will absolutely get killed.

Edit: I was wrong. It has REST API and access from other platforms are allowed.

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no-reply 1376 days ago
Nope. Should be able to use it as a REST API on other platforms too.

> It’s easy to use WeatherKit in your apps for iOS 16, iPadOS 16, macOS 13, tvOS 16, and watchOS 9 with a platform-specific Swift API, and on any other platform with a REST API. [0]

0: https://developer.apple.com/weatherkit/

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brianpan 1376 days ago
REST API is available. Up to 500,000 API calls a month.

https://developer.apple.com/weatherkit/get-started/

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robotmlg 1376 days ago
nope, it has a REST API. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/weatherkitrestapi

I know people who are already using it in random python scripts and whatnot, e.g. https://sixcolors.com/post/2022/06/adding-apple-weatherkit-d...

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killerdhmo 1376 days ago
... they announced WeatherKit https://developer.apple.com/weatherkit/
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PragmaticPulp 1376 days ago
> You also haven't been able to signup for a Dev account since May of 2020.

Dark Sky has been exceedingly clear about this for a very long time.

I don't know how the parent commenter missed it, unless they started the side project several years ago and never went back to check the API docs.

But today's announcement has nothing to do with discontinuing the Dark Sky API. They gave ample warning about that as well as replacement guidelines long ago.

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