Yahoo Weather Widget Download Mac

Recently we noticed that Yahoo Weather feed was taken down, or was it? It killed many of the iWidgets that used Yahoo weather, This ended up to be a lot of widgets, mainly because the widget script is copy and pasted to many different widgets.

The answer to fix these were to re-write the widgets. If you are not a coder the fix I post below is changed easily by anyone.

As of 4/12/16 this fix no longer works.

You can read my post here. Reddit post

Widgets (YahooWidgets.exe). Widgets are small, specific applications that you can run on your Windows or Mac OS desktop. Widgets application is a desktop program that you need in order to run Yahoo! The Widget Dock is a handy at-a-glance way of keeping on top of the information or entertainment the Widget handles. In addition, no less than four weather apps, such as Yahoo Weather and Weather Channel, also appeared for the first time, making the top 10 list of Android apps most likely to burn through your data allowance, while Weather & Clock Widget Android also appeared in. Yahoo Widget Engine includes some default widgets to get users started, including a weather widget, a digital clock, and a calendar among other things. Some of the most downloaded ones include a world time zone clock, 5 dedicated countdown timers, 6 simple RSS feed readers, 7 and webcam viewers.

I’ve noticed that if you change the old feed url, you could in fact still get Yahoo weather. Meaning you will only have to change 1 or 2 lines to fix these widgets.

I will explain the fix below, but first want to take a second to say these scripts are horrible. My advice it to use another method of getting weather.

IS2 (InfoStats2) is coming soon, and will allow you to grab weather from the Weather App. IS2 is the absolute way to go if you want to have the best weather. It will match all tweaks, the weather.app, and it will allow you to do many other great things.

Thread: http://modmyi.com/forums/file-mods/848650-infostats2.html

Once it is released I will do a tutorial series on how to use it, so don’t worry if it looks confusing now. I promise it is very efficient and easy to grasp.

Create your own. Parsing XML is pretty easy, if you are coding widgets I would highly recommend creating your own weather scripts. I have created one here, and it’s been running fine for years. http://junesiphone.com/libraries

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WidgetWeather. Widget weather pulls weather from the weather.app, much like InfoStats2 will/does. The only difference is WW will grab the weather, store it in and xml, then you still have to parse that XML. IS2 will be direct from the weather to your code.

Now enough rambling and to the fix. To fix any yahoo weather scripts you will need to look to where the weather is. Most of these widgets have it in the main.js , inside the main.js you have the url, most of the time it looks like this.

var url = “http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?w=”+postal+”&u=f”;

You will need to change this url to var url = “http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/forecastrss?w=”+postal+”&u=f”;

That’s it, weather should work again.

Steps.

Find main.js or where the weather is.
Look for any and all yahoo urls and change http://weather.yahooapis.com to http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/
Save and check if it works:)