API v4 apps are currently failing to load. Calls to https://api4.windy.com/api4/auth rimout after 30 seconds with a 502 response.

start with the samples/tutorials at https://api4.windy.com/. just copy the sample html as is into your own html file, put it on your web server, and look at the resulting page. make changes as needed. the samples cover a lot of ground in terms of typical changes folks might be interested in.

@Gkikas-LGPZ with API v4, windy is offering both free and paid versions of the API. See Ivo's v4 announcement.

1. you'll be doing a little bit of refactoring - but likely your API calls and use of leaflet and mostly unchanged.
2. similar
3. not that i am aware of
4. not that i am aware of

@saaneuvos said in Guide for dummies: How to load API 4?:

testAPI4.php

ah, so the address is https://www.sääneuvos.fi/test/testAPI4.php.

when i try load that page, i see the js console is reporting the following error:
Windy API used on unauthorized domain

Have you authorized your domain (www.sääneuvos.fi) in your API config (https://api4.windy.com/api-key/)? If you have, ivo's code might be having issues with the special characters in your domain name (ä)...

have you looked at the documentation samples:
https://api4.windy.com/examples/hello-world/

once you have a reference to map, you can use it as documented in leaflet documentation.

store.set('isolines', 'pressure');

hi @ivo - any thoughts about this? forcing a refresh of the model data and the view without having to reload the whole page? this appear to be an issue in https://www.windy.com/ as well - no auto update.

re-bump.

I'm concerned as we're coming up on this Jan 1 date:

"Since we decided to change our business strategy to focus on B2B opportunities, we regret to inform you that the free Windy API service will be discontinued, effective as of January 1, 2020."

Can someone at Windy please perk up.

Thanks,
Jeremy

@Mila-Tlamicha bump. several mails sent over the past couple weeks. and PM today. Looking forward to your reply :)

Same issue for me. The Manage your API key page displays a Error getting data from server :-( error. I can see the underlying calls to https://api4.windy.com/api4/keys are returning 403 responses.

have you looked at the documentation samples:
https://api4.windy.com/examples/hello-world/

once you have a reference to map, you can use it as documented in leaflet documentation.

store.set('isolines', 'pressure');

hi @ivo - any thoughts about this? forcing a refresh of the model data and the view without having to reload the whole page? this appear to be an issue in https://www.windy.com/ as well - no auto update.

I have not looked myself, but have you gone digging through the code for the isoline plugin:
https://api4.windy.com/assets/v/16.1.0-cc030470/plugins/isolines.js

You might find there are parameters you might manage to configure; or you might be able to make your own custom variant to use in place of this ootb plugin.

Hi @ivo - any news on this? forcing desktop mode only?

What is the URL for this page you have created?

Have you strted by simply copying/pastign the "hello world" example (https://api4.windy.com/examples/hello-world/)?

The Windy API is not really made for that use case. It's really built as a visualization layer that you can customize. Not a standalone headless REST API.