EasyWeather - Many Weather Services, One Bright Engine

Many weather services, one bright engine

EasyWeather 1.4 is a lightweight and versatile jQuery plugin displaying weather information for any location. Its compact size and numerous options make it perfectly suitable for providing local weather information in portals, websites, blogs and apps.

How it works

EasyWeather is an amazing plugin that unifies different weather sources in one tiny widget. It currently works with 2 weather providers but it is designed to work with an unlimited number of sources. It implements a cascading fallback mechanism ensuring data is retrieved even if a provider is down or the consumer itself is throttled by a service. If the first provider fails to return the requested information, EasyWeather will contact the next one to maximise the availability of the service. EasyWeather’s engine uses the same mechanism to detect users location and it currently supports 2 different geolocation services.

Main features

• It supports the following weather providers:
  • Weather API
  • Open Weather Map
• And the following Geolocation services:
  • geoPlugin
  • ipinfo.io
  • or alternatively native W3C geolocation
• Up to 10 days weather forecast depending on service
• Custom location search bar
• Units selection: Celsius/Fahrenheit and Kmph/Miles
• Caching mechanism based on:
  • HTML 5 local storage or
  • Cookies
• Pure client-side solution, no particular server-side technology required, no proxy page
• 10 predefined themes
• Templates and CSS styles fully customisable
• Callbacks, custom events and delegates for most actions
• Easy to install
• Extensive documentation

Demo

EasyWeather can be previewed here.

Changelog

2020-06-25

v1.4.0:

• Decommissioned legacy weather and geo-location data providers
• Added support for Weather API data providers

2018-02-19

v1.3.2:

• Added ipinfo.io geolocation provider

2015-10-26

v1.3.1:

• Forecast.io API now supports only HTTPS calls, updated logic accordingly

2014-05-03

v1.3:

• Bug fix for location searches yielding one result with Yahoo provider

2014-03-17

v1.2 comes with the following changes:

• Added Forecast.io weather data provider
• Added showRegion option for displaying the region or state of resolved location
• Updated the documentation

2014-01-13

v1.1:

• language support for weather condition labels (detailLabels option)
• replaced MaxMind GeoIP2 geolocation provider (free version discontinued) with Telize GeoIP service
• updated the samples file

2013-09-20

v1.0 widget launch

Important note

MaxMind has announced that free use of the GeoIP2 JavaScript API will be discontinued as of January 20, 2014. As a result, EasyWeather will offer Telize GeoIP as replacement for the current MaxMind GeoIP2 geolocation service. Thanks for your understanding.

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