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2019-01-06

Yahoo deprecated their old weather API in early January 2019, which broke i3-weather. There is a replacement API, but it requires manual effort to get an API key (you have to email them) and doesn't seem like a convenient solution going forward. i3-weather has now been updated to retrieve weather from OpenWeatherMap instead.

Breaking changes:

  • OpenWeatherMap requires an API key. You can register one for free here
  • The {region} format specifier is no longer supported, since OpenWeatherMap's results only include city and country, not state/province
  • The {visibility} and {wind_chill} format specifiers are no longer supported
  • The {wind_speed} and {unit_speed} format specifiers have been replaced by {wind_speed_mph} and {wind_speed_ms}
  • The {temp} and {unit_temperature} format specifiers have been replaced by {temp_f}, {temp_c}, and {temp_k}
  • The {unit_pressure} format specifier has been removed. The atmospheric pressure is always reported in hectopascals (millibars)
  • --timeout was removed. pyowm uses a default timeout of 2 seconds, and I plan to additionally do some refactoring to prevent the weather lookup from blocking i3status output
  • OpenWeatherMap uses a different location model than Yahoo's WOEIDs, so you will need to specify the location differently
  • i3-weather now depends on pyowm and no longer depends on requests or bs4