Improve Windy.com and make your own Windy Plugin
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Windy.com offers an exciting opportunity for tech enthusiasts and developers to enhance the weather experience by creating custom Windy Plugins. By developing a Windy Plugin, users can tailor the site’s capabilities to better serve specific interests by adding unique overlays, data points, and predictive models.
All the information on how to create your own plugin can be found here:
If you want support for your plugin, we'd be happy to invite you to our Windy Slack channel (invite-only). Let us know in the comments.
Here are some of the examples of Plugins that had previously been made for Windy:
Better Soundings by @vicb
Similar to Windy's sounding forecast, but a more detailed display of soundings for paraglider pilots.
Sun and Moon position by @jacobsjo
Displays Sun and Moon positions at any place and time. Perfect for photographers and other hobbyists.
Boat Tracker Example by @ivo
A plugin aimed at showing the trajectories of boats. Code can be used for tracking planes or cars as well.
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P Polina Nozdrina moved this topic from Windy Internal on
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@Polina-Nozdrina yes we would like to try and develop a plug in specifically for helicopter pilots
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@Polina-Nozdrina are these plugin examples shown above publicly available?
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Hey @Helipaddy, that sounds great. What is the plugin supposed to do? Do you need any assistance from our side?
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it's up to the developer. But yes, we'd love every plugin to be publicly available.
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@Polina-Nozdrina would it be possible to develop a plugin that simply formats your ECMFW forecast data for a specific location in a diffetent way? For example rather than outputting an arrow indicting wind direction, actually output the compass heading of the wind direction?
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@Levin-Media Hello, yes we believe that would be possible. Can we assist you in any way?
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I just had my contrail plugin published, please may I be invited to your Slack channel :)
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@Mortimer-Cat I already forwarded this to colleagues, so you should get an invitation link to your email, used in your account.
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Would it be possible to make custom model layers using a windy plugin?
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Hello Team! Is it possible to get the Slack invite to get some support for the plug-in I’m creating? Thanks
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@francescogola Hello, please me an email (to the direct message) through which we can invite you to the slack channel.
Thank you
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@David-Polášek we may need a little bit of help. We have two use cases in mind: when a pilot requests a landing, we want to show them the wind and visibility for that location in the email confirmation they receive.
The second use case is to show a wind and visibility overlay on our landing site map.
Best regards
Paddy
