Data source for weather widget?

Discussion & Questions
1

What is the data source for the weather widget?

(How) can I open an app or web page with more detailed info for the same location and time, when pressing the weather widget (which by default seems to have no action defined)?

2

It's using the DarkSky API: https://darksky.net/

You can assign the open URL predefined action to open that website.

3

Thanks! That's what I hoped and suspected, given the accuracy. But generating the URL to take the location into account seems tricky. Mine looks like https://darksky.net/forecast/NN.NNN,-NN.NNN/us12/en with the N's replaced by digits of the decimal latitude and longitude; and I have no idea where us12 comes from.

I'd hope to be able to put in a URL that would change with my current location, as the widget itself does. If there were tokens I could embed in the URL, I wouldn't have to come up with a way to generate the variable parts of the URL myself.

4

Good evening

"us12" means us units and 12 hour time format. It seems to be the default for if nothing else is chosen.

5

I do exactly this on press, you need to add an action for the press in BTT and make it run apple script, here is my script:

tell application "Location Helper"
set clocation_coords to get location coordinates
end tell

set longitude to item 1 of clocation_coords
set latitude to item 2 of clocation_coords

tell application "Google Chrome"
activate
open location "https://darksky.net/forecast/" & longitude & "," & latitude & "/si12/en"
end tell

You'll need to download location helper form the app store

Oh and as you can tell I use 'SI' units ie the si12, change as you want

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6

You can also do

tell application "BetterTouchTool"
	set clocation_coords to get_location
end tell

tell application "Google Chrome"
	activate
	open location "https://darksky.net/forecast/" & clocation_coords & "/si12/en"
end tell

Then it will not need the helper tool

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7

Thanks, just what I wanted!

8

Thanks for that info. Much as I prefer familiar units (I don't know what Celsius temperatures feel like without converting, although I'd have a rough idea if I used them more), I have dealt with 24 hour time enough to be happier with that, so I changed that part to us24 and got the expected result.