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    "No live camera feed at this time", plus a question about regions

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      fourtonfish last edited by

      When using the Webcams API, the webcam 1562900176 returned an image that said "No live camera feed at this time".

      The status of the webcam was "active", is there a way to detect when no image is available?

      Also, an unrelated question, is there a list of all the supported regions without having to loop through the results of list?show=regions?

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        marekd Administrator last edited by

        @fourtonfish Hello, the complete documentation is here: https://api.windy.com/webcams/docs
        If you cannot find a way how to achieve what you need, I am affraid there is no any "secret" way how to that.

        The webcam you mentioned is not working even on our website: https://www.windy.com/webcams/1562900176
        Unfortunately the error message is returned as the image of the webcam. Currently, we are not able to detect if the image is a real image or error image. The webcam stream we are using should return an error status code, but it does not :-(

        Anyway, thank you for reporting invalid webcam, I am sure @Korina will look at that :-)

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            Korina Administrator @fourtonfish last edited by Korina

            @fourtonfish
            Hi, I fixed the error with your camera image URL and it is live again - https://www.windy.com/it/-Webcam/Stati-Uniti-d'America/Stato-di-New-York/New-York/I-at-Stewart-Avenue/webcams/1562900176?40.714,-87.100,5

            Korina

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              fourtonfish last edited by

              @Korina Thank you!

              @marekd

              Unfortunately the error message is returned as the image of the webcam. Currently, we are not able to detect if the image is a real image or error image.

              Ah, that makes sense, thank you!

              As for the support regions, would you maybe consider adding the full list to your documentation?

              I'm looking at the list?show=regions endpoint and it shows 31,055 entries, which is a lot to loop through.

              For some context, I made a starter project for creating Twitter bots that post images from public webcams: https://nycviewsbot.glitch.me/

              Right now the tutorial suggests to use lat/long, but using a specific region would be more accurate.

              The project is aimed at less technical folks, so suggesting to loop through 31k+ records to find your location isn't a great option.

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                fourtonfish @fourtonfish last edited by

                *supported regions

                No edit button for me I guess 🙃

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                    fourtonfish last edited by

                    Okay, I think I misunderstood the the response data. I'm guessing total refers to the total number of webcams, and the regions field lists all of the available regions. In which case, this is definitely enough.

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