🧩 Dark Sky

Deprecated — this connector no longer works

Support for the Dark Sky API ended on March 31, 2023, and Apple replaced it with WeatherKit. Because the upstream API is gone, this connector cannot fetch data, and new API keys cannot be obtained. The component is marked deprecated and is no longer offered when creating a configuration.

If you still have a Dark Sky configuration, it will fail. Remove it, or switch to the Weather API connector, which covers forecast, real-time, and historical weather. The page below is kept only to explain existing configurations.

This data source connector looked up the weather anywhere on the globe, returning hour-by-hour or day-by-day observations going back decades. Data were provided by the Dark Sky API.

To configure the connector, you provided tables with locations, your Dark Sky API key, the units to use, and a desired forecast granularity.

API Secret Key

The connector authenticated with a Dark Sky API Secret key. New keys are no longer issued — the sign-up and documentation pages now redirect to Apple’s WeatherKit announcement.

Configuration

Create a new configuration of the Dark Sky connector.

The connector fetches weather conditions for locations provided by you in one or more tables. Each table must contain the following columns in this particular order:

• latitude — The latitude of a location (in decimal degrees); positive is north, negative is south.
• longitude — The longitude of a location (in decimal degrees); positive is east, negative is west.
• date (optional) — The date in format YYYY-MM-DD. By default, the current date is used.

Column names are not important. The only condition that has to be matched is the column order. If you have a table with more columns, or the order of your columns is different, use the advanced input mapping and select the required columns in the desired order.

Sample input table

latitude	longitude
50.0939141	14.45694
49.2577142	-123.194115

You can test the extraction on this sample file.

Extraction Output

The connector produces one table called weather with the following columns:

• primary — hash of the latitude, longitude, date and key used for incremental saving of data
• latitude — latitude of the location
• longitude — longitude of the location
• date — date and time of the weather condition
• key — name of the weather condition (e.g., temperature, windSpeed)
• value — value of the weather condition

Data are always imported incrementally. The Dark Sky API documentation that described these weather conditions is no longer published.