WeatherKit Rest API - Extended Hourly Forecast

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Created Mar ’23

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I am attempting to transition from DarkSky to WeatherKit, and can't seem to figure out how to request an extended hourly forecast. I can get up to 24 hours, but nothing more.

Is the extended hourly forecast ("10-day hourly forecasts") only available with the Apple WeatherKit SDK (i.e. function hourly(startDate, endDate))?

I have tried query parameters of: ?dataSets=forecastHourly?hourlyStart=<unix_timestamp>?hourlyEnd=<unix_timestamp> ...with no luck.

Is my query parameter wrong or does the Rest API not provide this level of detail?

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The hourly forecast is available for the next 10 days. The format of the hourlyStart and hourlyEnd should be ISO date-time format yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ rather than Unix timestamps.

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Mar ’23

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The hourly forecast is available for the next 10 days. The format of the hourlyStart and hourlyEnd should be ISO date-time format yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ rather than Unix timestamps.

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sqhoward OP

Mar ’23

Thank you for the response @Frameworks Engineer, I got the hourly query working.

If anyone else references my original post, note the prefix delimiter for hourlyStart and hourlyEnd should be "&" ampersands, and not "?" question marks. An example of a correct query is: ?dataSets=forecastHourly&hourlyStart=2023-03-10T21:04:51.722Z&hourlyEnd=2023-03-17T20:04:51.722Z

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