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  • Update 3/15/2016:  Portlet must change to support Oath 1.  See https://developer.yahoo.com/weather/.
  • ToC limits usage to non-commercial use
  • Key only required for location lookups
  • 2000 invocations per day (Weather portlet caching reduces invocations per day)
  • Much nicer icons
  • Provides forecasts only two days into the future
  • API key requests at https://developer.apps.yahoo.com (log in and select My Projects from your avitar image on top right)

World Weather Online

  • Update 3/29/2016:  Registration now looks like it gives a 60-day trial for Premium which is a different URL than the Free (and URL currently not supported by the Portlet).  I was unable to get a free API key, though I emailed tech support to see if there was a way They no longer offer a free API key to new users.
  • Free to both non-commercial and commercial users
  • Requires a key for both weather and location lookups
  • Requires 15 minute caching of each feed (already the weather portlet's default caching strategy)
  • Limit of 500 requests / hour
  • Provides forecasts several days into the future (configurable)
  • API key requests at http://www.worldweatheronline.com/register.aspx

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