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Comment on AGAIN! WeatherKit REST API 502 / slooooooow
yep. Just when I think maybe they've actually fixed the problem, the 502's start coming again. WeatheKit was finally okay today (4/5) during the day. But now in the evening, a huge percentage of calls are returning 502. It would be nice if Apple acknowledged the situation. The system status only seem to indicate a problem if it affects Apple's weather app. If the API is just borked, it's always green.
Apr ’23
Comment on WeatherKit stumbles under heavy load. And I don't understand Apple "support."
Open Weather has a "one call" replacement for Dark Sky. But 1) still requires a lot of work to get going. It's not a "plug in" replacement. 2) Extremely expensive. Call are 15x more expensive than Dark Sky. My Radar is basically a plug in replacement. I think 99% of the fields, field names, JSON structure, etc is exactly the same as Dark Sky. It's also cheaper than Dark Sky. However, it's rate limited at 120 calls/minute. So, you mileage may vary.
Mar ’23
Comment on {'reason': 'NOT_ENABLED'}
Yes. I wish I had put my time migrating over to another API. So many reports of errors (404,401,502) and generally slow response times. Apple should do the right thing and keep Dark Sky available until they actually have a production ready API in place. They said they would, and developers put trust in that expectation.
Mar ’23