Weather forecasting services for China, including: querying weather forecasts for web sites: http://weather-china.appspot.com/JSON-based rest API Interfaces

Advantage: Data and style separation

Disadvantage: not complete. City retrieval is not supported.

 

Google Code: http://code.google.com/p/weather-china/

 

Weather-China encapsulates weather RSS feed provided by Yahoo and provides a rest API interface in JSON format. To obtain weather forecasts for a city, such as Beijing, send the following GET request:

Http://weather-china.appspot.com/api? City = Beijing

Parameter description:

City: city name. You can use Pinyin.

Returns a string in JSON format, encoded using a standard UTF-8, for example:

{
"Pub ",
"Wind ":{
"Chill": 33,
"Direction": 340,
"Speed": 14.48
},
"Astpolicmy ":{
"Sunrise": "4: 49 ",
"Sunset": "19: 46"
},
"Atmosphere ":{
"Humidity": 26,
"Visibility": 9.99,
"Pressure": 982.05,
"Rising": 0
},
"Forecasts ":[
{
"Date": "2010-07-05 ",
"Day": 1,
"Code": 32,
"Text": "clear ",
"Low": 23,
"High": 33,
"Image_large": "http://weather-china.appspot.com/static/w/img/d32.png ",
"Image_small": "http://weather-china.appspot.com/static/w/img/s32.png"
},
{
"Date": "2010-07-06 ",
"Day": 2,
"Code": 32,
"Text": "clear ",
"Low": 23,
"High": 34,
"Image_large": "http://weather-china.appspot.com/static/w/img/d32.png ",
"Image_small": "http://weather-china.appspot.com/static/w/img/s32.png"
}
]
}

Pub: current weather information release time;

WIND: Wind Power Information;

Astpolicmy: sunrise and sunset time;

Atmosphere: atmospheric information;

Forecasts: includes the weather forecast for the current day and the next day:

• Date: Date
• Day: Week
• Code: weather code (Please query the meaning of the code here)
• Text: Weather Information
• Low: Minimum Temperature
• High: maximum temperature
• Image_large: large image (250x180) Address
• Image_small: small image (61X34) Address

The weather information is not updated frequently and can be safely cached on the client for 1 hour.

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