Question

I had been using the following google weather api in my iPhone apps to get 4 day weather forecast. 

NSString *address = @"http://www.google.com/ig/api?weather=Chicago";
    NSString *request = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@",address];

    NSLog(@"request: %@", request);

    NSURL *URL = [NSURL URLWithString:request];
    NSError *error;
    NSString *XML = [NSString stringWithContentsOfURL:URL encoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding error:&error];

    NSLog(@"XML: %@", XML);
    NSLog(@"XML lenght: %d", [XML length]);

As of yesterday Aug 25th, 2012 I get absolutely nothing back! I don't get any results back. When did this happen? Did Has anyone else experience this same problem?

This is a really critical issue as I have multiple weather / clock apps that look for google weather api and they all are crashing as I expect some results back in my XML string!

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Solution

The Google Weather API seems to be "officially" dead, which is ironic to say, because it was never officially a supported API to begin with. There has been no official announcement from Google, but it should be noted that iGoogle is now using Wunderground's API for weather data.

http://igoogle.wunderground.com/US/CA/Mountain_View.html

So no, you're not seeing things. The Google Weather API is gone. I experienced the same thing. It's time to move on and find a suitable replacement.

OTHER TIPS

If anyone is interested in getting XML that looked and felt like google weather api then use this MSN weather API list of conditions?

Google stopped their weather API, i found another one from the website yr.no and i use it in my website weathercase.net via PHP which is wonderful

The Google weather API was shut down in 2012.

If you're looking for an alternative to the google weather API, these are the three most popular weather APIs at the moment :

Check their respective documentation pages for more info on how to use them!

From this time Weather Underground API and Dark Sky API were shut down too. Although Dark Sky API is still working until 2021, we have to look for a replacement. I hope that OpenWeather with their new One Call API will help anyone who needs powerful weather API at this moment.

If you looking for an alternate then use Ambee's weather api

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