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Can I use the Google Weather API in a commercial project, if I just added a "weather powered by Google" link?

John Slegers
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  • **The Google weather API was shut down in 2012.** See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12145820/google-weather-api-gone/35943521 – John Slegers Mar 11 '16 at 15:35

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It looks like the Google Weather API is not even an officially supported API, but a 'hack' found and documented by other people. So there is no terms of use that defines if you can use it commercially.

But if you look at a similar API offered by Yahoo, its terms of use explicitly prohibit commercial use, so I wouldn't gamble on using Google's API in your project.

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As far as I know the Google weather API is not an officially supported public Google API. It's internally used e.g. by Google Calendar or iGoogle. Therefore I think, the legal status is somehow indefinite.

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