duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-spice — pull request #204 by ironwallaby (2013-09-16 18:16:09+00:00)
Title: Forecast.io Weather Forecast Plugin

Plugin functionality: This plugin provides weather information from Forecast.io in response to queries such as "weather" or "forecast for Troy, NY".

Plugin data source (API): http://forecast.io/ (or, https://developer.forecast.io/)

Reason for API selection : Prakash Swaminathan requested that we make a plugin for you folks! We think DDG is pretty great, so we're happy to comply.

Example queries : "weather" "weather forecast for Troy, NY" "weather at 12180" "weather in London"

Plugin Audience : This plugin is useful to anyone who goes outside. (So, anybody except programmers?)

Have you done any cross-browser testing? : Yes, it should work across all commonly-used browsers.

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This plugin is a bare-bones first pass at this sort of thing. Once it's integrated and working, interesting future work might include responding to queries such as "when will it rain?" with a more-specific UI. (This work is, luckily, all centered in the plugin; we don't think we'd need to do any custom API work to support it!)