I won’t bother prefacing this blog entry with an explanation of what “Weatherbot” is. Regular readers (all three of you) already know, because I carry on about it at length. Anyone else, see older posts on the topic.
I bashed out some recent alterations this weekend, because the Weatherbug API was giving too many potential matches for location names:
Weatherbot: You said ‘brisbane’. Did you mean ‘Berwick-upon-Tweed, United Kingdom’?.
Me: Guess what? I didn’t.
Try it for yourself, if that sort of thing takes your fancy. The old code is still sitting around somewhere.
The new version uses the simple, albeit unofficial, Google Weather API. It can now be accessed via the usual channels. Apologies if recent instability left you in a state of uninformed terror, but you can rest easy now, knowing that Weatherbot is out there once more. Just don’t try using it to find the weather in Trondheim…