Question

I was using Google Weather API to fetch weather info, but apparently Google had stopped its service. And I am trying to switch to Yahoo Weather API now.

var WOEID = 2502265;  //random WOEID
$.ajax({
    url: "http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastjson?w=" + WOEID + "&u=c",
    dataType: 'json',
    success: function(data) {
        console.log(data);
    }
});

However, is there a way that I can get the WOEID by JavaScript only? Because back then I can just do

http://www.google.com/ig/api?hl=en&weather=NYC

and that's it.

It says on the Yahoo weather API page,

To find your WOEID, browse or search for your city from the Weather home page. The WOEID is in the URL for the forecast page for that city. You can also get the WOEID by entering your zip code on the home page.

But I want to get it by JavaScript, not manually go to weather.yahoo.com and find out the WOEID.

Don't care about the Cross-Origin Policy because I am using it in an Chrome extension and it does not apply.

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Solution

Okay I got to know from your comments what exactly you want

You have a place name and you want to get the WOEID of that place name using javascript ajax calls

The url to get that is not defined any where you have to use GeoPlanet service to resolve a place to a WOEID 

http://where.yahooapis.com/v1/places.q('Place name')?appid=[yourappidhere]

OR you have to use Direct YQL some what like this ( use percent encoding in the url for your city name ) appropriately and try doing an ajax call to this 

http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql?q=select%20*%20from%20geo.places%20where%20text%3D%22Place%20name%22&format=xml

OTHER TIPS

DECEMBER 2018 UPDATE:

Definitely use the Direct YQL technique mentioned above by @aravind.udayashankara. I messed around with the yboss api for awhile only to see it has been discontinued (https://developer.yahoo.com/boss/search/) even though Yahoo still has plenty of documentation on it online.

Try the following instead (it runs off the page but there is code within the URL).

yourLocation = "location" (zip, city name, etc.)

urlQuery = "https://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql?q=select+*+from+geo.places+where+text%3D%22" + yourLocation + "%22&format=json"

To get the Woeid by city name

using (WebClient wc = new WebClient())
{
string results = wc.DownloadString("http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql?q=select%20*%20from%20geo.places%20where%20text%3D%22" + CityName + "%22&format=xml");
}

See this article for more details

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