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Trying to get the weather from yahooapis

This should return the weather for my location:

http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql?q=SELECT%20item.condition%20FROM%20weather.forecast%20WHERE%20location=%27NOXX0008%27%20AND%20u=%27c%27&format=json&_nocache=1001

The temperature is correct, but the code is always 3200, which means 'not available' - see https://developer.yahoo.com/weather/

It wasn't always like that. I used to get the correct code in return. Anyone know if I am doing something wrong or if there is some tweak to this?

The javascript I use is this:

$(function(){
    // Specify the ZIP/location code and units (f or c)
    var loc = 'NOXX0008'; // or e.g. SPXX0050
    var u = 'c';

    var query = "SELECT item.condition FROM weather.forecast WHERE location='" + loc + "' AND u='" + u + "'";
    var cacheBuster = Math.floor((new Date().getTime()) / 1200 / 1000);
    var url = 'http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql?q=' + encodeURIComponent(query) + '&format=json&_nocache=' + cacheBuster;

    window['wxCallback'] = function(data) {
        var info = data.query.results.channel.item.condition;        
        $('#wxIcon').css({
            backgroundPosition: '-' + (61 * info.code) + 'px 0'
        }).attr({
            title: info.text
        });
        $('#wxIcon2').append('<img src="http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/we/52/' + info.code + '.gif" width="34" height="34" title="' + info.text + '" />');
        $('#wxTemp').html(info.temp + '&deg;' + (u.toUpperCase()));
    };

    $.ajax({
        url: url,
        dataType: 'jsonp',
        cache: true,
        jsonpCallback: 'wxCallback'
    });
});

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Scott Fell

Are you sure your location is correct. Try out your yql https://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console/#h=select+item.condition+from+weather.forecast+where+woeid%3D2502265 (this is the default location)

That converts to https://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql?q=select%20item.condition%20from%20weather.forecast%20where%20woeid%3D2502265&format=json&callback=

itnifl

ASKER

https://www.edg3.uk/snippets/weather-location-codes/
This tells me NOXX0008 is the code for Drammen, Norway. It is the code that I use.

I could also use woeid like you do. In this case I used 29326649 which I got from http://woeid.rosselliot.co.nz/lookup/drammen. Like the site suggests, the code result is 3200 in this case also:
https://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql?q=select%20item.condition%20from%20weather.forecast%20where%20woeid%3D29326649&diagnostics=true

So, Yahoo having problems with measuring the weather at my location? Who should I contact?

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itnifl

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Thank you