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A javascript api for darksky.net
This package is designed to provide :
It differs from the original library in three ways:
Consider using DarkSkyJS-Lite which has no dependencies and is around half the size of this module. The lite version does not include the getForecastToday
and getForecastWeek
methods and consequently only supports currently
- this means no hourly
or daily
data is returned.
14/10/2019 In v0.3.0 there's improved error checking for the PROXY_SCRIPT URL - Invalid URLs now return warning. The response JSON is also checked for validity.
29/11/2017 The following data points were added:
And the following deprecated ones removed:
If you haven't already, create a developer account here https://darksky.net/dev/.
It is recommended you install via NPM where dependencies will be loaded automatically.
npm install darkskyjs
darkskyjs is configured to work with both AMD and CJS applications.
If you're using Webpack, Browserify or some other CJS module loader simply require the module like so
var Darksky = require('darkskyjs');
or using ES6 import, like so
import Darksky from 'darkskyjs'
and use the Darksky
constructor like so:
var darkSky = new DarkSky()
You can then use one of the three methods listed below to retrieve location specific weather data.
getCurrentConditions
getForecastToday
getForecastWeek
If you're using Require.JS you will need to download momentjs and es6-promise.
A server side proxy is required for this to work. So create a file that will contain your key and be careful not to commit it to a public code base.
Here's an example PHP one. Replace the value of $api_key with your valid key.
<?php
// File Name: proxy.php
$api_key = 'b962d5ee80be5293a234b69fb975629c';
$API_ENDPOINT = 'https://api.darksky.net/forecast/';
$url = $API_ENDPOINT . $api_key . '/';
if(!isset($_GET['url'])) die();
$url = $url . $_GET['url'];
$url = file_get_contents($url);
print_r($url);
darkskyjs can handle multiple location requests. Simply pass in an array of requests (to one of the three methods listed above) to get data for multiple locations.
Each request must comprise of two key/value pairs: latitude
and longitude
. Optionally you can pass in a place name as a reference which will be returned should the request be successful e.g.
[{latitude: 51.507351, longitude: -0.127758, name: 'London'}]
If you don't pass an array it will create one for you, but it's best to do so for consistency and to avoid confusion as an array is what you'll get back.
This API returns a set of functions that allow you to access the raw data, rather then the raw data itself. Each function is named in exactly the same way as its respective data point e.g. ozone()
will return the value for ozone
.
getCurrentConditions
returns an array of condition arrays. Each array represents one of locations you requested data for.
getForecastToday
and getForecastWeek
return nested arrays, one for each supplied location. Within that array is an array for each hour when using getForecastToday
or one for each day when using getForecastWeek
.
In order to match the locations that were supplied with what's returned it is recommended that the name
property be used. A callback is then used to supply the returned data. For example:
darkSky.getCurrentConditions(
[
// location object(s)
{
latitude: 51.507351,
longitude: -0.127758,
name: 'London'
}
],
// callback
function(conditions) {
for (var i = 0, length = conditions.length; i < length; i++) {
if (conditions[i].name === 'London') {
console.log(conditions[i].cloudCover());
}
}
}
);
DarkSkyJS uses moment.js to handle date/time data and ES6 Promises Polyfill to handle the requests via promises
Add a method for retrieving alerts
The following data points have been added since 29/07/2017:
FAQs
A promise-based wrapper for requesting weather data from DarkSky.net
The npm package darkskyjs receives a total of 6 weekly downloads. As such, darkskyjs popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that darkskyjs demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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