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iOS Build a Weather App with Swift (Retired) Pulling Data From the Web Making a Network Call

Joseph Kandi
Joseph Kandi
2,640 Points
Posted by Joseph Kandi
Joseph Kandi
2,640 Points

When requesting weather data, i get nil with the NSData

I have the following code

let apiKey = "bc9369ff33e690c4b3f1fc682fe0d03a"
let baseURL = NSURL(string: "https://api.forecast.io/forecast/\(apiKey)/")
let apiURL = NSURL(string: "37.8267,-122.423", relativeToURL: baseURL)!
let weatherData = NSData(contentsOfURL: apiURL, options: nil, error: nil)

the weatherData variable is nil, i am not sure why.

1 Answer

landonferrier
landonferrier
25,097 Points

Joseph, you may have a expired code from forecast.io. Try the following:

  1. Sign in to forecast.io.

  2. Copy your account key and paste it into your apiKey constant.

This happened to me when building the weather app. After updating my account key, the data was successfully collected.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask!

Joseph Kandi
Joseph Kandi
2,640 Points
Joseph Kandi
Joseph Kandi
2,640 Points

I have changed the code to this 

        private let apiKey = "API_KEY"
        let baseURL = NSURL(string: "https://api.forecast.io/forecast/\(apiKey)")
        let forecastURL = NSURL(string: "\(baseURL!)/-33.915538,18.6560594")!

        let weatherData = NSData(contentsOfURL: forecastURL, options: nil, error: nil)
        let dictionaryData = NSJSONSerialization.JSONObjectWithData(weatherData!, options: nil, error: nil) as NSDictionary
        println(dictionaryData)

and it works. I think the issue was with the NSURL with the argument relativeToURL. It seems it wasnt constructing the right url