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Google Weather API isn't really dead

7 pointsby dartonwover 12 years ago
The weather API isn't exactly dead, it's just locked down. But not securely...<p>https://www.google.com/ig/api?weather=23220&#38;hl=en&#38;referrer=googlecalendar<p>The funny thing is that it only works if referrer is "googlecalendar" (so far from what I've tried), but it doesn't care if that's the actual HTTP_REFERER. Just passing it as a request parameter gets the XML response.<p>I stumbled upon this after getting pissed with the Yahoo API used by https://github.com/Neroth/gnome-shell-extension-weather, which appears to be broken in Fedora repos.

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