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Hacking with MacOS - Project 10 Weather Bar

	@v4film Apr '20 Project 10 requires an API key from darksky.net to make the app. Dark Sky is no longer taking new developers for their API, so no key available. Is there a work around for this? 3
	@v4film Apr '20 I actually enjoyed Project 10 by having to change things in the code to use another public API - OpenWeatherMap. I actually learned more about the topics covered by having to dig into everything. Just thought others wouldlike to know. 3
	@kejiro Apr '20 The problem with using external services. Always the risk of them shutting down or being bought up. It will be interesting to see what Apple plans to do with them. Maybe we'll see a WeatherKit in the future :) I ran in to the same problem, and found the same solution. OpenWeatherMap is fairly close to the DarkSky API so it wasn't really any larger differences. @twostraws: Might be an idea to update the book to cover it instead, if you haven't already :) 3
	@fiod3s Apr '20 Thanks for the suggestion! In fact OpenWeatherMap.org has recently introduced a brand new One Call API to allow easier transition from the DarkSky API. 3
	@jakcharvat Jun '20 Had to go the same route as well. Unfortunately haven't been able to get percipitation chance % from OWM, so I fell back to using rain mm in the last hour. Great project though 3
	@benbrook Jun '20 Great tip to use OpenWeatherMap. I've just done the same using the One Call API; a few sight differences as others have found but nothing major and motivated me to read and understand the API rather than just copy verbatim from the text! 3

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