Here’s a simple URL web service the retrieves the weather forecast for the next 15 days: If you want to follow along, you can sign up for a free account that will allow you to retrieve 1000 free weather data results every day. The Weather API also provides a number of options to manipulate and filter the results which makes it easy to show using the WEBSERVICE function. We will be using the Timeline Weather API as it includes weather forecast and historical weather data. To retrieve weather data, we first need a web service to retrieve the weather data. How to use the Excel WEBSERVICE to retrieve weather data Once the function executes, the data in the cell is available for normal text manipulation using Excel functions. From the Microsoft documentation, a fictitious example would be as follows =WEBSERVICE(“”) Given a URL, the WEBSERVICE function will retrieve the data for the URL and populate that data into the Excel cell as piece of text. The WEBSERVICE function is very easy to construct: =WEBSERVICE(url) However, is it always the best way to work with weather data web services in Excel? Read on to find out! How does the Excel WEBSERVICE function work? In this article we describe how to use WEBSERVICE to retrieve weather forecast and historical weather data directly into Excel without the need for macros or scripts. The Microsoft Excel WEBSERVICE function retrieves data from a URL into a single cell within an Excel worksheet.
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