Darksky API not responding (HTTP 503 Service Unavailable)

A bit earlier than announced at https://blog.darksky.net unless they have an issue?

As previously announced, the Dark Sky iOS app will no longer be available beginning on December 31st, 2022 and, as of this date, already purchased versions of the app will no longer provide weather data. The Dark Sky API and website will continue to function until March 31st, 2023.

Really and why

The Dark Sky API has not been shut down ahead of schedule, but it is temporarily unavailable. See https://status.darksky.net

Thank you. The status page has not been updated at the time of writing this thread, many hours after the incident. Anyway, thanks for the update.

I’ve had so many users message me about this today. It’s been down for several hours now, and judging past response times for downtimes, the time it’s taking is so much more in comparison. Really hoping for an imminent resolution.

I’m in the process of integrating Apple Weather and so this is the worst possible timing.

We have been getting harmed all day with complaints. This is the longest outage we have seen since we started with Dark Sky in 2017.

I would also add due to today’s close proximity to the date announced that the API will shut down, a lot of users are jumping to the incorrect conclusion — understandably — that this is not a temporary issue but permanent. I’m getting refund requests as a result. This is hurting reputation and business. The damage can be terminal if this isn’t addressed urgently. I know there’s been acknowledgement that it’s being reviewed, but it’s highly concerning how many hours it’s been and still no fix (especially considering previous downtimes were usually insignificant). I’m sure the problem must be serious, otherwise it would have been fixed already. And that’s why I’m worried that the potential solution may be expensive, and given it’s less than 2 weeks since the API’s actual closure, that it may be decided that it’s not worth it. I really hope this isn’t the case, because if it is, I — and I bet many others — are in danger of severe consequences.

Today the API is still unavailable. Responding with "HTTP 502 bad gateway". No updates on https://status.darksky.net/ Apple, you are really bad at managing the end of life of this API... :(

It was quite reassuring for the Apple frameworks engineer to reply to this thread a couple of days ago. Given no acknowledgement neither here nor status.darksky.net is quite concerning because it’s been probably a couple of hours now at least (based on my user reports). I know it’s the morning now Eastern Time, but I would expect this to be monitored 24/7. Fingers crossed.

Down again since a couple of hors ago https://status.darksky.net/2023/03/24/darksky-api-outage.html

We are aware of the Dark Sky API outage and the team is working on restoring service.

The Dark Sky API is back up: https://status.darksky.net/2023/03/24/darksky-api-outage.html