Bug#918467: lxpanel: Weather plugin uses obsolete APIs, does not work.

2019-01-24 Thread Kelly Venechanos
Could it be an option to use OpenWeatherMap API? They mention being “open” to lifting api limitations for FOSS developers: "For FOSS developers: we welcome free and open source software and are willing to help yo

Bug#918467: lxpanel: Weather plugin uses obsolete APIs, does not work.

2019-01-08 Thread Andriy Grytsenko
Yes, Yahoo unfortunately ended free service at January 3. New API requires registering the application and has unknown restrictions which probably will lead the weather plugin to DoS situation, because if developer registers API to get a key then that limitation will be applied to each user of tha

Bug#918467: lxpanel: Weather plugin uses obsolete APIs, does not work.

2019-01-06 Thread Teemu Ikonen
Package: lxpanel Version: 0.9.3-1 Severity: normal Tags: upstream The weather plugin of lxpanel does not update the weather information any more. A look at the source reveals that a query is made to yahooapis.com, which does not seem to exist any more. Yahoo does have another weather API (see htt