I don't know if this is the place for this question, but here's the problem:
I have an web app that fetch weather data from various brazilian cities using Yahoo Weather API. Basically, I got all woeid numbers from this site: http://woeid.rosselliot.co.nz/. After I got all woeid numbers, I've created a web page that makes a ajax call (through jQuery) to fetch all weather info:
var woeid = 455997;
var url_yahoo = "http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?w=" + woeid + "&u=c";
$.ajax({
url: 'http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/feed/load?output=xml&v=1.0&callback=?&q=' + encodeURIComponent(url_yahoo),
dataType: 'json',
cache: false,
success: function(data) {
data = $(data.responseData.xmlString).find("item");
var condition_node = $(data).find("yweather\\:condition");
var forecasts_node = {
"today": $(data).find("yweather\\:forecast").eq(0),
"tomorrow": $(data).find("yweather\\:forecast").eq(1),
"after_tomorrow": $(data).find("yweather\\:forecast").eq(2)
}
var temperatures = {
"today": {
"now": condition_node.attr("temp"),
"min": (forecasts_node['today']).attr("low"),
"max": (forecasts_node['today']).attr("high")
},
"tomorrow": {
"min": (forecasts_node['tomorrow']).attr("low"),
"max": (forecasts_node['tomorrow']).attr("high")
},
"after_tomorrow": {
"min": (forecasts_node['after_tomorrow']).attr("low"),
"max": (forecasts_node['after_tomorrow']).attr("high")
}
}
console.log( temperatures['today'] );
}
})
The example above can fetch all temperatures from various cities. All I need to do is change WOEID number on the variable with the same name. The city with WOEID number of 455997 is Sobral - CE - Brazil. Basically, this ajax call will open the url "weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?w={WOEID_NUMBER}&u=c", extract all info from resulting XML file, and show on browser's console all temperatures, as shown below:
Object {now: 38, min: 25, max: 32}
It was working fine last year, with all temperatures being shown inside "temperatures" array variable. But around two months ago, it stopped working, returning 'undefined' on all indexes.
Object {now: undefined, min: undefined, max: undefined}
For debugging purposes, I tried the url that is loaded by ajax (http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?w=455997&u=c). Yahoo should return me all forecast info related to Sobral - CE - Brazil, but instead it returns me the XML below:
<rss xmlns:yweather="http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/ns/rss/1.0" xmlns:geo="http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#" version="2.0">
<channel>
<title>Yahoo! Weather - Error</title>
<description>Yahoo! Weather Error</description>
<item>
<title>City not found</title>
<description>Weather Data not Available at the moment</description>
</item>
</channel>
</rss>
Thus, my webapp can't fetch any weather info related to my city. The same issue is happening with another brazilian cities, such as below:
Sobral, Ceara, Brazil - WOEID 455997
Tianguá, Ceara, Brazil - WOEID 453622
São Benedito, Ceará, Brazil - WOEID 449511
Ubajara, Ceara, Brazil - WOEID 454340
Viçosa, Ceara, Brazil - WOEID 461578
Guaraciaba do Norte, Ceara, Brazil - WOEID 452761
For your information, the same issue is happening on iOS 5's weather app. It can't show info about some of the cities above, and it was working fine a few months ago.
I can't find any recent info about this issue. I don't know if it's something temporary, or if it means that the service is going to be discontinued on the future. Is anyone having this same issue as me?
