Has anyone been successful in getting values out of these two sources? Sadly, both aren’t offering API.
I don’t know about Weathercloud, but WU was once the de-facto weather provider and had a great API. I wrote several programs tied to their API.
When they closed the public API they displaced tens (hundred perhaps) of thousands of users that had some sort of integration and a lot of devs started scraping to work around the issue and get WU back to their product, this resulted in quite a lockdown from WU on their pages to randomize their HTML tags frequently to prevent this since that traffic is magnitudes more resource intensive than the API was.
This is all to say that if WU is still doing that it’s going to be whack-a-mole to get scraping working on them. Scraping is already iffy at best anyway, but to have to constantly play cat and mouse with the site to keep it working could be overwhelming.
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I assume this probably isn’t really helpful, but Wunderground DOES have a free API if you have a weather station reporting to their site. I do, so am able to use it. Downside is it doesn’t include hourly data.
For years (since it started going downhill) I’ve tried to move away from Wunderground, but I’ve never found an alternative that has as reliable of forecasts for my location.
Same with Weatherflow, it is by far the most accurate weather data I can get easy access to.
That’s mostly because all the amateur PWS are connected to either of these two, hence giving very accurate and close-by data. With some clever programming, these values could be averaged/combined to give a clearer picture of the current conditions. In terms of forecasting, all the top ones are more or less the same, there are only a handful of forecast models, but the critical piece is having more (reliable) sources.
Weatherflow does not offer a API for pulling the data, it has been promised for years and never materialised.
Yes they do, but you have to have a weather station.
Can you pull information from other stations using API?
Hi, thanks for the link. I’m now able to get my PWS (netatmo) forecast 
Is your forecast display in the card custom?