{"id":48760,"date":"2025-08-04T15:56:53","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T19:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=48760"},"modified":"2025-08-04T15:56:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T19:56:53","slug":"accuweather-to-discontinue-free-api","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/04\/accuweather-to-discontinue-free-api\/","title":{"rendered":"AccuWeather to Discontinue Free API"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/developer.accuweather.com\/new-portal\">AccuWeather<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=44663003\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/developer.accuweather.com\/new-portal\">\n<p>AccuWeather&rsquo;s&#x202F;current Free Limited Trials for Core Weather and MinuteCast&reg; will be retired with the new portal launch.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Once your trial ends, you can keep building with our affordable Starter package, which offers essential API access at a competitive monthly rate.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It doesn&rsquo;t say what the new plans are.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/27\/weather-machine\/\">Weather Machine<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/21\/forecastadvisor\/\">ForecastAdvisor<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/08\/weatherkit\/\">WeatherKit<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/20\/weather-apps-after-dark-sky\/\">Weather Apps, After Dark Sky<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/31\/apple-buys-dark-sky\/\">Apple Buys Dark Sky<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/23\/accuweather-caught-sending-user-location-data-even-when-location-sharing-is-off\/\">AccuWeather Caught Sending User Location Data, Even When Location Sharing Is Off<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AccuWeather (via Hacker News): AccuWeather&rsquo;s&#x202F;current Free Limited Trials for Core Weather and MinuteCast&reg; will be retired with the new portal launch. [&#8230;] Once your trial ends, you can keep building with our affordable Starter package, which offers essential API access at a competitive monthly rate. It doesn&rsquo;t say what the new plans are. Previously: Weather [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2025-08-04T19:56:56Z","apple_news_api_id":"2b8e8086-cc52-4d29-b70d-2401ef1dcc9c","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2025-08-04T19:56:56Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AK46AhsxSTSm3DSQB7x3MnA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1561,31,71,1451,196,50],"class_list":["post-48760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-accuweather","tag-ios","tag-programming","tag-sunset","tag-weather","tag-webapi"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48761,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48760\/revisions\/48761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}