It's interesting that they'll continue to offer API with the new WeatherKit API.
I have an impression that Dark Sky API was very popular with developers and have been wondering what stood out for them among many other weather APIs on the market.
I have an impression that Dark Sky API was very popular with developers and have been wondering what stood out for them among many other weather APIs on the market.
1. Pricing. It was affordable and straight-forward pricing. There wasn't a huge "tier bump" - I think it was like a flat fee per 1000 requests after the free alotment.
2.You always could expect the same response, regardless of location or date. You could get an hourly forecast 3 years into the future, or 20 years in the past. Most other weather API will give you hourly only from "now" into the next few days. Or you can get daily for the next ten days or something like that. So you had to build logic around into your app. With DarkSky I got the same response no matter the day, time, or location. So it was much simpler to deal with.
3. Accuracy. I was always amazed at how accurate it was.