ColorfulClouds Weather API

Name: ColorfulClouds Weather API API
Brand: ColorfulClouds Weather API
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★ Only Publicly Available OpenAPI DocumentData EnrichmentAddress ValidationapiKey6 EndpointsREST

For Agents

Fetch real-time weather, minute-by-minute precipitation nowcasts, and hourly or daily forecasts for any longitude and latitude through the Caiyun ColorfulClouds Weather API.

Quickstart

Get started with ColorfulClouds Weather API in minutes using your preferred integration method.

# Add to your MCP client config (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf)
{
  "jentic": {
    "url": "https://api.jentic.com/mcp",
    "auth": "oauth"
  }
}

# Then ask your agent:
"get the current weather at a coordinate"

# → Jentic returns the GET /events tool with parameter schema, agent executes.

Capabilities

What an agent can do with ColorfulClouds Weather API API.

Retrieve real-time weather conditions for any longitude and latitude via realtime.json

Get minute-by-minute precipitation nowcasts via minutely.json

Fetch hourly forecasts for the next 24 hours via hourly.json

Fetch multi-day daily forecasts via daily.json

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Use for: I need to get the current weather for a longitude and latitude, Check whether it will rain in the next two hours at a location, Retrieve an hourly forecast for the next 24 hours, Get a 7-day daily forecast for a destination

Not supported: Does not handle severe-weather alerting subscriptions, historical climate archives, or air quality forecasting — use for realtime conditions and short to medium-range forecasts at a coordinate only.

Jentic publishes the only available OpenAPI document for ColorfulClouds Weather API, keeping it validated and agent-ready.

Jentic publishes the only available OpenAPI specification for the ColorfulClouds Weather API, keeping it validated and agent-ready. ColorfulClouds (Caiyun) provides global weather data with a specialism in minutely precipitation nowcasting that is especially detailed for China. Six GET endpoints cover real-time conditions, minutely precipitation, hourly forecasts, daily forecasts, and a unified weather aggregate, each accepting longitude and latitude in the path along with an API token. The API supports multiple languages and unit systems through query parameters and is well-suited to outdoor activity, logistics, and travel agents that need short-horizon precipitation predictions.

Use Cases

Patterns agents use ColorfulClouds Weather API API for, with concrete tasks.

★ Outdoor Activity Rain Alert

Power running, cycling, and outdoor sports apps with two-hour precipitation nowcasts by calling minutely.json for the user's current coordinates. ColorfulClouds is well known for accurate short-horizon rain prediction in China and provides global coverage at coarser granularity. The agent surfaces a 'rain in N minutes' string to the user without operating its own weather model.

GET /{token}/{longitude},{latitude}/minutely.json with the user's coordinates and parse the precipitation array into a 'rain in N minutes' string.

Logistics Route Weather Check

For delivery and logistics platforms, retrieve hourly or daily forecasts along the route to flag risk windows for outdoor work, refrigerated cargo, or last-mile cycling. The hourly.json endpoint returns a 24-hour forecast, while daily.json covers multi-day planning. Both accept the same coordinate and token URL pattern, so a worker can sweep waypoints with one loop.

For each waypoint, GET /{token}/{longitude},{latitude}/hourly.json and flag any hour where precipitation exceeds a threshold.

Travel App Destination Weather

Show travellers a unified weather summary using weather.json, which returns realtime, hourly, and daily forecasts in a single call. This avoids three separate round trips at app launch and keeps the destination card responsive even on slow networks. Travellers can also receive responses in their preferred language and unit system.

GET /{token}/{longitude},{latitude}/weather.json with lang=en_US and unit=metric for the destination coordinates.

AI Agent Weather Lookup via Jentic

Through Jentic, an AI agent searches for an intent like 'get the current weather' and is returned the ColorfulClouds realtime operation along with its input schema. The agent fills in coordinates and executes, all without holding the raw token in its context. Wiring up takes under 30 minutes versus a few hours of direct integration to handle the unusual path-token auth.

Use Jentic search for 'get the current weather', load the realtime.json schema, and execute it with the user's longitude and latitude.

Key Endpoints

6 endpoints — jentic publishes the only available openapi specification for the colorfulclouds weather api, keeping it validated and agent-ready.

METHOD

PATH

DESCRIPTION

GET

/{token}/{longitude},{latitude}/realtime.json

Real-time weather at a coordinate

GET

/{token}/{longitude},{latitude}/minutely.json

Minute-by-minute precipitation nowcast

GET

/{token}/{longitude},{latitude}/hourly.json

24-hour hourly forecast

GET

/{token}/{longitude},{latitude}/daily.json

Multi-day daily forecast

GET

/{token}/{longitude},{latitude}/weather.json

Unified realtime, hourly, and daily aggregate

GET

/{token}/{longitude},{latitude}/realtime.json

Real-time weather at a coordinate

GET

/{token}/{longitude},{latitude}/minutely.json

Minute-by-minute precipitation nowcast

GET

/{token}/{longitude},{latitude}/hourly.json

24-hour hourly forecast

GET

/{token}/{longitude},{latitude}/daily.json

Multi-day daily forecast

GET

/{token}/{longitude},{latitude}/weather.json

Unified realtime, hourly, and daily aggregate

Why though Jentic?

Three things that make agents converge on Jentic-routed access.

Credential isolation

The ColorfulClouds token sits in the URL path rather than a header, which usually means leaking it through logs. In Jentic the token is stored encrypted in the vault and inserted into the path only at execution time, so the agent never sees or logs the raw token.

Intent-based discovery

Agents search Jentic by intent (for example 'get the current weather' or 'check for rain in the next hour') and Jentic returns the matching ColorfulClouds operation along with its input schema, so the agent can call the right endpoint without browsing Caiyun documentation.

Time to first call

Direct ColorfulClouds integration: half a day to handle the unusual path-token auth, language and unit parameters, and per-endpoint response shapes. Through Jentic: under 30 minutes — search for the operation, load its schema, execute.

Related APIs

Alternatives and complements available in the Jentic catalogue.

Complementary

Bytescout API

Bytescout handles document and barcode processing while ColorfulClouds delivers weather data — combine to embed weather snapshots in PDF reports.

Use ColorfulClouds for the weather payload and Bytescout to package the result into a delivered PDF report.

Complementary

Caller API

Caller API enriches phone numbers; pair with ColorfulClouds for SMS weather alerts where the recipient list needs validation.

Use Caller API to validate recipient numbers before sending a weather-driven SMS alert.

Alternative

Calm API

Calm delivers wellness content, not weather data — listed only for agents comparing third-party content APIs.

Not a real alternative for weather; only relevant when comparing third-party content APIs that share an apiKey auth pattern.

FAQs

Specific to using ColorfulClouds Weather API API through Jentic.

Why is there no official OpenAPI spec for the ColorfulClouds Weather API?

ColorfulClouds documents the API on open.caiyunapp.com but does not publish a downloadable OpenAPI specification. Jentic generates and maintains this spec so that AI agents and developers can call ColorfulClouds Weather API via structured tooling. It is validated against the live API and kept up to date. Get started at https://app.jentic.com/sign-up.

What authentication does the ColorfulClouds Weather API use?

The API uses an API token passed as part of the URL path rather than a header — the token sits between the version and the coordinate segment, for example /v2.5/{token}/{longitude},{latitude}/realtime.json. Through Jentic, the token is stored encrypted in the credential vault and substituted into the path at execution time.

Can I get a precipitation nowcast for the next two hours?

Yes. Call /{token}/{longitude},{latitude}/minutely.json to receive a minute-by-minute precipitation forecast covering the next two hours. ColorfulClouds is particularly known for nowcast accuracy in China, with global coverage at coarser granularity.

What are the rate limits for the ColorfulClouds Weather API?

Rate limits are not declared in the OpenAPI specification and are tied to the subscription tier rather than published per-endpoint. For high-volume agent workloads contact ColorfulClouds for the limits applied to your token before scheduling sweeps.

How do I get the current weather through Jentic?

Run a Jentic search for 'get the current weather', load the schema for the realtime.json operation, and execute it with the longitude and latitude. Install the SDK with pip install jentic and use the async search, load, and execute pattern.

Is the ColorfulClouds Weather API free?

ColorfulClouds offers free tokens with a daily call quota and paid plans for higher throughput and additional fields. Pricing is set by ColorfulClouds and is not declared in the OpenAPI spec — refer to open.caiyunapp.com for current tiers.