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cpraf104
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Joined: August 24th, 2015, 11:28 pm

Weather Skin suddenly not working

Post by cpraf104 »

Hi all, first post here.

So I've been using this weather skin:
http://gerguter.deviantart.com/art/Your-Weather-124481576

It was fine up until today (at least that I can remember, it definitely worked fine in the past) when I took a look at the logs and found that rainmeter was throwing me this error message:

WebParser: (Fetch error) The server name or address could not be resolved (ErrorCode=12007)

I have not touched the .ini files at all ever since I first created my skin. So the link that the skin uses for the webparser has never changed. Yet it stopped working all of a sudden.

Is it something to do with my browser and the settings, or perhaps my firewall?

Help!

Edit: I ran the WebParser Tester that is pinned at the top of the forum, all three lights are green.

And here's the URL that is in my .ini files for the weather skin:

http://xoap.weather.com/weather/local/#dest#?cc=*&unit=#SCALE#&dayf=6
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jsmorley
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Joined: April 19th, 2009, 11:02 pm
Location: Fort Hunt, Virginia, USA

Re: Weather Skin suddenly not working

Post by jsmorley »

I get a DNS error with that URL. Might be some kind of hiccup with Weather.com, maybe try it again tomorrow.
Ichigo
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Joined: August 27th, 2015, 1:33 pm

Re: Weather Skin suddenly not working

Post by Ichigo »

I still have the same issue, it happened around 24th-25th august so about 2-3 days ago and it's still now working, using weather.com just like the guy above, i think weather.com changed something and broke any skin that uses their weather code's :(
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eclectic-tech
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Location: Cedar Point, Ohio, USA

Re: Weather Skin suddenly not working

Post by eclectic-tech »

It appears "http://xoap.weather.com..." is no longer a valid URL...
not sure if this is a permanent change or not.

You can purchase a FREE API key, for personal use, that may give you access to more info, but that doesn't help skin authors.

Another option would be to change the URL to the 'XML' feed:
URL="http://[b]xml[/b].weather.com/weather/local/#dest#?cc=*&unit=#SCALE#&dayf=6"

I was able to get my 'XOAP-based' 3-day weather skins working again, without needing to edit the RegExp, by using this 'XML' feed.
Ichigo
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Joined: August 27th, 2015, 1:33 pm

Re: Weather Skin suddenly not working

Post by Ichigo »

eclectic-tech wrote:It appears "http://xoap.weather.com..." is no longer a valid URL...
not sure if this is a permanent change or not.

You can purchase a FREE API key, for personal use, that may give you access to more info, but that doesn't help skin authors.

Another option would be to change the URL to the 'XML' feed:
URL="http://[b]xml[/b].weather.com/weather/local/#dest#?cc=*&unit=#SCALE#&dayf=6"

I was able to get my 'XOAP-based' 3-day weather skins working again, without needing to edit the RegExp, by using this 'XML' feed.
woow thanks! by simply changing the "xoap" part with "xml" part in my current URL in configs my weather skin once again works.

Ty