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Yeah, I know the world and his dog probably know about these already, but I just discovered them ok?!

They pretty much rock!

Get ‘em here

The one I was interested in (watch this space) was the weather API. I downloaded the package, fired up Flex Builder, stuck in a Weather Service instance, some event listeners and told it to get me some weather. Which it did! The whole process took me all of 3 minutes. That’s how it should be

Here’s the class I used (the code I used is for Brighton, UK, btw):

package
{
	import flash.display.Sprite;
	import com.yahoo.webapis.weather.*;
	import com.yahoo.webapis.weather.events.*;

	public class WeatherTest extends Sprite
	{
		private var _weatherService:WeatherService;

		public function WeatherTest()
		{
			super();

			_weatherService = new WeatherService();
			_weatherService.addEventListener(WeatherResultEvent.WEATHER_LOADED, onWeatherLoaded);
			_weatherService.addEventListener(WeatherErrorEvent.INVALID_LOCATION, onInvalidLocation);
			_weatherService.addEventListener(WeatherErrorEvent.XML_LOADING, onWeatherXMLError);

			//get all the weather!
			_weatherService.getWeather("UKXX0215", Units.ENGLISH_UNITS);
		}

		private function onWeatherLoaded(event:WeatherResultEvent):void
		{
			trace(event.data)
		}

		private function onInvalidLocation(event:WeatherErrorEvent):void
		{
			trace(event.data);
		}

		private function onWeatherXMLError(event:WeatherErrorEvent):void
		{
			trace(event.data);
		}
	}
}

Simple huh?

There’s also APIs for Answers, Maps, Search, Upcoming. They’re all well documented and logically laid out. Now get out there and start mashing up those feeds!