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Hourly Weather starting from Now Exclude Past hours

Mario

July 27, 2022 11:40

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Is there a way that I can download hourly data without past hours...ie starting from now time..

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  Support Agent July 28, 2022 12:34 Official comment

  Thank you for your question. Yes you can use the 'include' parameter to request only forecast data. For example, "&include=fcst". For more information on the parameter, please see the API documentation at: https://www.visualcrossing.com/resources/documentation/weather-api/timeline-weather-api/

  Here is the doc snippet for that include parameter:

  include (optional) – Specifies the sections you would like to include in the result data. This allows you to reduce query cost and latency. Specify this as a comma separated list. For example: &include=obs,fcst to include the historical observations and forecast data. The options are:

  • days – daily data
  • hours – hourly data
  • alerts – weather alerts
  • current – current conditions or conditions at requested time.
  • events – historical events such as a hail, tornadoes, wind damage and earthquakes (not enabled by default)
  • obs – historical observations from weather stations
  • remote – historical observations from remote source such as satellite or radar
  • fcst – forecast based on 16 day models.
  • stats – historical statistical normals and daily statistical forecast
  • statsfcst – use the full statistical forecast information for dates in the future beyond the current model forecast. Permits hourly statistical forecast.

  Regards

  Visual Crossing Support

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  Mario July 28, 2022 18:01

  Thanks for reply..

  If  I add "&include=fcst" then all obs weather shows as null but still shows..

  If I add "&options=nonulls" all nulls are gone from json but  "datetime":  and  "datetimeEpoch": still shows for every past hourly entry since midnight which are still pulled as entrys by "jq" command.

  Sorted this issue through my script but would be nice if I can hide past hours from json even if empty or null.

   

  Thanks

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  Support Agent July 30, 2022 02:33

  Thank you for the feedback. We have passed this on to our engineering team to evaluate. This would likely be included as a different parameter to avoid changing existing API responses.

  Regards

  Visual Crossing Support

   

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  Topper July 21, 2023 06:06

  Hi i want to get the next 10 hours but i only get the 24 hours for the full day.

  How can i get the next 10 hours?

  my link

   

  https://weather.visualcrossing.com/VisualCrossingWebServices/rest/services/timeline/Berlin/next24hours?unitGroup=metric&elements=datetime%2Ctemp%2Cprecip%2Cprecipprob&include=hours&key=API_KEY&contentType=csv

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  Support Agent July 24, 2023 15:59

  Thank you for your question. We currently require full days of hourly data to ensure that the day-level information in the JSON output correctly aggregated a full day. You can reduce the amount of data by filtering to forecast data only using the 'fcst' include flag:

  https://weather.visualcrossing.com/VisualCrossingWebServices/rest/services/timeline/Berlin,Germany/next24hours?unitGroup=metric&key=YOUR_API_KEY&contentType=csv&include=hours,fcst&elements=datetime%2Ctemp%2Cprecip%2Cprecipprob

  This will return null values for hours prior to the current hour and therefore reduce the transfer size

  Also notice that we recommend always including a country or US code when specifying a city name as many city names are duplicated and so can cause unexpected results.

  Regards

  Visual Crossing Support