Ok guys, Im speaking with weather.com's customer service to try and see if I can get a valid license key that we all can use without violating their terms of service there. please bear with me and until then, if you're having troubles,
disconnect your internet,
right click on the weather object, and deselect script enabled
Alternatively you can delete the object altogether
you can reconnect your internet once its gone or disabled and hang tight until someone finds a solution here
You know, as I read the license agreement for the xml on Weather.com, I get the impression we're the type of people they're trying to shake off. Looks like they're just wanting it to be used as an advertising tool. Did anybody read the license agreement part 3 (Fees and Advertising) section (A)?
Mine looks like this
Randomize str_RANDOM_URL="&link=xoap&prod=xoap&par=XXXXXXXXXX&key=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX" http.Open "GET", "http://xoap.weather.com/search/search?where=" & x, False http.send "" ' Store data in a string weatherdata = http.responseText
Is this right, cuz it's not working
Absolutely. I wasn't slamming them, I was thinking that creating an account and pointing my little widgets to it might be precisely the wrong thing to do.
Just went to the Rainmeter Forum website, and found this posting, they've been in discussion with weather.com ... http://www.rainmeter.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=588
Bump. Don't let this die til we have a solution.
Admin from rainmeter started a post here at WC ...https://forums.wincustomize.com/358640
Do not panick over the T.O.S. from weather.com yet.
Read the small print:
"If you cannot meet these requirements but would still like to use our weather data, please contact our business development department at"
Keep the faith folks.
Also there is an AccuWeather solution available, and they were absolutely great with us at the Rainmeter community.
Albeit it took a week or 2 to get the program approved and running.
Just a suggestion
Contact Info for AccuWeather
Business Development Manager
http://www.accuweather.com/promo-ad.asp?partner=forecastbar&traveler=0&dir=aw&page=forecastfox
I have been in communication for hours with weather.com since this morning.
I am not holding out any hope of getting the old feed back up and running.
Apparently the XML(s) will all go down, world wide, for sure at midnight EST
Good luck to us all
Regards
SGT. E. V. McKay
Rainmeter Dev Team Member
Rainmeter Forum Admin
It's also affecting objectbar as well.
And of course WinStep, at least the themes I've looked at. Clearly Weather.com was carrying a lot of us around for free for a long time, we really have no right to gripe.
Agreed.
I have no complaints. The service, although limited country wise, has been greatly appreciated.
Now for the solutions
I am begining to find the extent of this and I am finding over a half dozen communities lighting up now, and more tonight and tomorrow I figure.
If we at the Rainmeter community can be of any assistance, do not hesitate to contact us!
I am available to assist as I can
That or ManBearPig!
This whole thing sounds like a Stardock process interrogates a Weather.com web page whose format has changed. If so, the fix is to update the code in the Stardock process that reads the Weather.com page and supports the weather widgets.
You are very close, with the exception that they will change the code and embed static links.
Therefore the parse will change and the indexing will need to be adjusted.
This wil not be just a matter of inputting a new URL.
I suspect that the XML Layout will have changed
Also there is a change to a new ID system that was instituted last week to the URL for XML use tracking purposes
How do you go about even getting to script? Have to finally close object in task manager..
You can get to the script by disconnecting your internet connection so it doesn't look at the zip code when your editing.
Disable your internet connection. Most weather gadgets use system.internetconnected and that will error out and you can edit then.
I'm also having the same problems with the weather widgets and even with weather gadgets. So I guess I'll wait for someone to find the solution.
was working on the 6th.. but today.. no work
If the gadget uses the same standard code that _martin_ wrote, yes.
Martin write good code, but seems like weather.com need more money..
from rainmeter forum:
The current URL that we use looks something like the following:http://xoap.weather.com/weather/local/8 ... =f&dayf=10The new standard will look like the following:http://xoap.weather.com/weather/local/3 ... =xoap&par=[PartnerID]&key=[LicenseKey]
where [PartnerID] is your unique Partner ID and [LicenseKey] is your unique License Key.
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