Weatherstack
Weatherstack is a real-time weather data API that provides current conditions, forecasts, historical weather, and marine data with global coverage. It exposes a REST API where requests are authenticated with an access key and return structured JSON weather data for a specified location. Nexla connects to Weatherstack as a data source to ingest weather data on a schedule for downstream analytics and integration.
Power end-to-end data operations for your Weatherstack API with Nexla. Our bi-directional Weatherstack connector is purpose-built for Weatherstack, making it simple to ingest data, sync it across systems, and deliver it anywhere — all with no coding required. Nexla turns API-sourced data into ready-to-use, reusable data products and makes it easy to send data to Weatherstack or any other destination. With comprehensive monitoring, lineage tracking, and access controls, Nexla keeps your Weatherstack workflows fast, secure, and fully governed.
Features
Type: API
- Seamless API Integration: Connect to any endpoint as source or destination without coding, with automatic data product creation
- Visual Composition & Chaining: Build complex integrations using visual templates, chain API calls, and compose workflows with data validation and filtering
- API Proxy: Expose curated slices of your data securely with a secure and customizable API proxy that validates and transforms data on the fly
- Request optimization with intelligent batching, retry, and caching to minimize API calls and costs
Prerequisites
Before creating a Weatherstack credential, you need a Weatherstack account and an API access key. Weatherstack authenticates every request with an access key that is passed as the access_key query parameter.
To obtain your Weatherstack access key, follow these steps:
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Sign up for an account at weatherstack.com. A free tier is available, with paid plans that unlock additional endpoints (such as forecasts, historical data, and marine weather) and higher request volumes.
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Sign in to your account and open your Weatherstack dashboard.
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Copy the API access key shown on the dashboard. This is the value you will provide to Nexla to authenticate requests.
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Note the base URL for the API. Weatherstack serves requests from
https://api.weatherstack.com/, and each endpoint (for example,current,forecast, orhistorical) is appended to this base URL.
Keep your access key confidential. If it is compromised, regenerate it from your Weatherstack account. For details about available endpoints, request parameters, and response formats, see the Weatherstack API documentation.
Authenticate
Credentials required
| Field | Required | Secret | Description |
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| API Key Value | Yes | Yes | An encoded string value used as a secret token to authenticate API requests |
| Access Key | Yes | Yes | Your Weatherstack API access key. Obtain from https://weatherstack.com/dashboard |
| Base URL | Yes | No | The base URL for the Weatherstack API. |
Create a credential in Nexla
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After selecting the data source type, click the Add Credential tile to open the Add New Credential overlay.
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Enter a name for the credential in the Credential Name field and a short, meaningful description in the Credential Description field.
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Enter your Weatherstack API access key in the Access Key field. This value is passed as the
access_keyquery parameter to authenticate every request. -
Enter the API access key value in the API Key Value field. This is the secret token used to authenticate your API requests.
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Enter the API base URL in the Base URL field. Weatherstack requests are served from
https://api.weatherstack.com/.Keep your access key confidential. If it is compromised, regenerate it from your Weatherstack account. For details about available endpoints, request parameters, and response formats, see the Weatherstack API documentation.
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Click the Save button at the bottom of the overlay. The newly added credential will now appear in a tile on the Authenticate screen during data source creation.
Use as a data source
To create a new data flow, navigate to the Integrate section, and click the New Data Flow button. Select the Weatherstack connector tile, then select the credential that will be used to connect to Weatherstack, and click Next; or, create a new Weatherstack credential for use in this flow.
Endpoint templates
Nexla provides pre-built templates that can be used to rapidly configure data sources to ingest data from common Weatherstack endpoints. Select the endpoint from which this source will fetch data from the Endpoint pulldown menu. Available endpoint templates are listed in the expandable boxes below.
Once the selected endpoint template has been configured, click the Test button to the right of the endpoint selection menu to retrieve a sample of the data that will be fetched. Sample data will be displayed in the Endpoint Test Result panel on the right, allowing you to verify that the source is configured correctly before saving.
Manual configuration
Weatherstack data sources can also be manually configured to ingest data from any valid Weatherstack API endpoint, including endpoints not covered by the pre-built templates, chained API calls, or custom request parameters. Select the Advanced tab at the top of the configuration screen, and follow the instructions in Connect to Any API to configure the API method, endpoint URL, date/time and lookup macros, path to data, metadata, and request headers.
Once all of the relevant settings have been configured, click the Create button in the upper right corner of the screen to save and create the new Weatherstack data source. Nexla will now begin ingesting data from the configured endpoint and will organize any data that it finds into one or more Nexsets.