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Yahoo weather rss feed for Canada

My application uses yahoo's weather feed (XML) to display the weather forecast for the next 5 days. This works nice when the zip code is in the US. For example, the url below gets me the feed for Franklin, MI.

http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/forecastrss/48025_f.xml

I need a similar feed for Canada too, but cant seem to get it working. For example, the postal code of 'Scarborough' is M1M1M1. Tried with 

http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/forecastrss/M1M1M1_f.xml

but that does not work.

Thanks in advance

Solution

  • I'm using reliably:

    http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?w=location

    where w = WOEID and for Scarborough, Canada w=4369 so:

    http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?w=4369

    will return correctly the weather data. More information on the API here.

    I'm also using this method for getting the WOEID for a given location name string:

    // Create new XML doc
XmlDocument xmldoc = new XmlDocument();
// Get XML doc
xmldoc.Load(string.Format("http://where.yahooapis.com/v1/places.q({0})?appid={1}", place, ApplicationID));
string woeid = xmldoc.GetElementsByTagName("woeid")[0].InnerText;
return woeid;

    But for this to work you will need to obtain an ApplicationID from Yahoo by registering your application.