Apple announced the purchase of DarkSky back in 2020. The API was originally sch...

happyopossum · on Sept 13, 2022

> And no, Apple is not interested in sharing its API's with anyone.

Funny how people will state ‘facts’ that match their internal perceptions, regardless of what’s been publicly stated over and over again.

Apple has released the WeatherKit API, which is privacy-first, and pretty much provides what Dark Sky did.

ShakataGaNai · on Sept 14, 2022

I stand corrected on WeatherKit API.

My "internal perceptions", as you called them, was based on Apple's history. Not any Apple hate. The fact that they are opening something up is very cool, I'm glad to hear it. But a single open API does not address an overall very closed ecosystem.

neurostimulant · on Sept 13, 2022

The API is only for apple devices, right? Web apps that uses Dark Sky's API (like the gp's webapp) will absolutely get killed.

Edit: I was wrong. It has REST API and access from other platforms are allowed.

no-reply · on Sept 13, 2022

Nope. Should be able to use it as a REST API on other platforms too.

> It’s easy to use WeatherKit in your apps for iOS 16, iPadOS 16, macOS 13, tvOS 16, and watchOS 9 with a platform-specific Swift API, and on any other platform with a REST API. [0]

0: https://developer.apple.com/weatherkit/

brianpan · on Sept 13, 2022

REST API is available. Up to 500,000 API calls a month.

https://developer.apple.com/weatherkit/get-started/

robotmlg · on Sept 13, 2022

nope, it has a REST API. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/weatherkitrestapi

I know people who are already using it in random python scripts and whatnot, e.g. https://sixcolors.com/post/2022/06/adding-apple-weatherkit-d...

killerdhmo · on Sept 12, 2022

... they announced WeatherKit https://developer.apple.com/weatherkit/

PragmaticPulp · on Sept 13, 2022

> You also haven't been able to signup for a Dev account since May of 2020.

Dark Sky has been exceedingly clear about this for a very long time.

I don't know how the parent commenter missed it, unless they started the side project several years ago and never went back to check the API docs.

But today's announcement has nothing to do with discontinuing the Dark Sky API. They gave ample warning about that as well as replacement guidelines long ago.