Yahoo weather-api response as json

Question

I am using yahoo weather api to get weather information

This is returning an xml output.
I want to get it in JSON format. How can i get this as JSON?

Answer 1

I would suggest using YQL and requesting JSON output. The link you referenced is Yahoo's weather RSS feed.

http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql?q=select%20item%20from%20weather.forecast%20where%20location%3D%2248907%22&format=json

Answer 2

As per the documentation at http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss, the rss response is xml.

The Weather RSS feed is an XML document that conforms to the RSS 2.0 specification. RSS is an XML document containing a single channel element representing the feed, several elements containing metadata about the feed itself, and one or more item elements describing individual items within the feed.

And so, you won't get the response as JSON

Answer 3

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Answer 4

After a few search i found the yahoo weather api is best for me as what i really needed. To get the weather data from latitude and longitude

In XML (default)

http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql?q=select * from weather.forecast where woeid in (SELECT woeid FROM geo.places WHERE text="({28.3949},{84.1240})")

In JSON format

http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql?q=select * from weather.forecast where woeid in (SELECT woeid FROM geo.places WHERE text="({28.3949},{84.1240})")&format=json

Your ouput will be like below

Put your own place latitude and longitude to find your location weather, hopefully this will help.

Answer 5

http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastjson?w=2502265

Just replace forecastrss by forecastjson in the URL. I see one drawback: No weather-code is returned for the forecast.

Update 2014-06: This used to work, but seems to be gone since 2012-10 (see also https://developer.yahoo.com/forum/YQL/-/1349591762366-e0f8ad94-f599-49fe-bddb-fe3cd0180dea)