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A headless weather plugin for Craft CMS using the Open-Meteo API.

Features

Headless, frontend-agnostic: No frontend output, just robust weather data for your templates or APIs.
Granular variable selection: Choose which weather variables to fetch for each granularity (current, minutely_15, hourly, daily).
Weather code to icon/description mapping: Built-in mapping for Weather Icons CSS, including day/night logic.
Admin panel: Configure API variables, location, units, and cache from a Craft CP section.
Twig variable: Access weather data anywhere in your templates: craft.meteo.weather()
Cache management: Weather data is cached for performance; clear cache from the admin panel.
Extensible: Clean, service-based architecture for easy extension.

Requirements

Craft CMS 5.8.0+
PHP 8.2+

Installation

From the Plugin Store:

Go to the Plugin Store in your project’s Control Panel and search for “meteo”.
Press “Install”.

With Composer:

composer require coredevelopment/craft-meteo
./craft plugin/install craft-meteo

Configuration & Usage

Settings

Location: Set latitude, longitude, and timezone.
Units: Choose temperature, windspeed, precipitation units, and time format.
Variables: For each granularity (current, minutely_15, hourly, daily), select which weather variables to fetch.
Cache Duration: Set how long weather data is cached (in seconds).

All settings are managed in the Craft CP under the “Meteo Settings” section.

Twig Usage

Fetch weather data anywhere in your templates:

{% set weather = craft.meteo.weather() %}
{{ dump(weather) }}

You can pass lat, lon, or override any settings:

{% set weather = craft.meteo.weather(49.2, -2.1, { forecast_days: 2 }) %}

Data Structure

The returned array mirrors the Open-Meteo API, with additional weather_code_meta for icon/description mapping:

{
  "current": {
    "weather_code": 2,
    "is_day": 1,
    "weather_code_meta": {
      "description": "Partly cloudy",
      "icon": "wi wi-day-cloudy"
    },
    ...
  },
  "hourly": { ... },
  "daily": { ... }
}

If is_day is present, icon will be day/night specific. If not, a generic icon is used.

Weather Icons CSS Integration

To display weather icons in your frontend, include the Weather Icons CSS library in your HTML:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/weather-icons/2.0.10/css/weather-icons.min.css">

See the Weather Icons project for icon previews and documentation.
The plugin provides the correct icon class in the weather_code_meta.icon property for each weather data point.

Example usage in Twig:

<i class="{{ weather.current.weather_code_meta.icon }}"></i>
<span>{{ weather.current.weather_code_meta.description }}</span>

Admin Tools

Clear Cache: Use the “Clear Cache” button in the Meteo admin panel to force-refresh weather data.
Settings Persistence: All settings are stored per environment and persist across deployments.

Developer Notes

Extending: Add new variables or mapping by editing Settings.php and WeatherService.php.
API: All param-building logic is in WeatherService::getWeather. No logic in fetchFromApi.
Debugging: Debug logs are written for variable selection and API param-building.

Credits & Support

Core Development x iPop Digital Collaboration
Support: info@ipopdigital.com
MIT License

Changelog

See CHANGELOG.md for release notes.

coredevelopment / craft-meteo

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