canonical: https://jentic.com/apis/visualcrossing.com/visualcrossing

# Visual Crossing Weather API

Weather Forecast and Historical Weather Data via RESTful API. The API exposes 5 endpoints secured with apiKey authentication.

## For AI agents

Programmatically historical and forecast weather API, historical and forecast weather API. Covers 5 operations with apiKey authentication.

## Scope

Does not handle payments, communications, or crm - use for data enrichment only.

## Capabilities

- Historical and Forecast Weather API
- Weather Forecast API
- Retrieves hourly or daily historical weather records.
- Query and filter Visual Crossing Weather API records by parameters
- Monitor Visual Crossing Weather API operational status and events

## Use cases

### Data Enrichment Operations

Use the Visual Crossing Weather API to perform data enrichment operations programmatically. The API provides 5 endpoints covering core functionality including historical and forecast weather API, historical and forecast weather API, historical and forecast weather API.

Example prompt: Call GET /VisualCrossingWebServices/rest/services/timeline/{location} to historical and forecast weather API

### Automated Visualcrossingwebservices Management

Automate visualcrossingwebservices operations by combining multiple Visual Crossing Weather API endpoints. Agents can historical and forecast weather API and then historical and forecast weather API in a single workflow.

Example prompt: Call GET /VisualCrossingWebServices/rest/services/timeline/{location}/{startdate} to historical and forecast weather API, then verify the result

### AI Agent Integration via Jentic

AI agents discover and call Visual Crossing Weather API endpoints through Jentic without managing credentials directly. An agent searches for the required operation by intent, receives the matching endpoint schema, and executes the call with Jentic-managed authentication. This eliminates the need to read API documentation or handle apiKey tokens manually.

Example prompt: Search Jentic for 'historical and forecast weather API', load the operation schema, and execute with Jentic-managed credentials

## Key endpoints

| Method | Path | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| GET | /VisualCrossingWebServices/rest/services/timeline/{location} | Historical and Forecast Weather API |
| GET | /VisualCrossingWebServices/rest/services/timeline/{location}/{startdate} | Historical and Forecast Weather API |
| GET | /VisualCrossingWebServices/rest/services/timeline/{location}/{startdate}/{enddate} | Historical and Forecast Weather API |
| GET | /VisualCrossingWebServices/rest/services/weatherdata/forecast | Weather Forecast API |
| GET | /VisualCrossingWebServices/rest/services/weatherdata/history | Retrieves hourly or daily historical weather records. |

## Key resources

- **Visualcrossingwebservices** — Operations for VisualCrossingWebServices

## Why Jentic

- **Setup:** Wiring the Visual Crossing Weather API by hand means passing its apiKey as a query parameter and building its timeline, forecast, and history request URLs yourself. Through Jentic you install once, import the Visual Crossing Weather API from the API Directory, store the key once, and your agent calls it.
- **Permission scoping:** The Visual Crossing Weather API is read only and takes the location and dates as request inputs, so scope the agent to the query operations it needs, such as fetching a timeline forecast or historical weather. You choose that set, and none of these operations change any data.
- **Credential handling:** Your Visual Crossing API key is stored once, encrypted, by your own Jentic One instance and injected at execution time. It never enters the agent's prompt, logs, or context.
- **Discovery method:** Agents search Jentic by intent such as 'get the forecast for a location' or 'fetch historical weather for a date range', and Jentic returns the matching Visual Crossing operation with its input schema so the agent calls the right endpoint without browsing the reference docs.

## Related APIs

- **Clearbit** — Alternative data enrichment API
- **Fullcontact** — Alternative data enrichment API
- **Hunter** — Complementary data enrichment API

## FAQ

### What authentication does the Visual Crossing Weather API use?

The Visual Crossing Weather API uses an API key passed in the `key` query. Through Jentic, these credentials are stored encrypted in your Jentic One instance and injected at execution time, so raw secrets never enter the agent context.

### Can I historical and forecast weather API with the Visual Crossing Weather API?

Yes. Use the GET /VisualCrossingWebServices/rest/services/timeline/{location} endpoint. The API returns structured JSON responses that agents can parse and act on directly.

### What are the rate limits for the Visual Crossing Weather API?

Rate limits are not specified in the OpenAPI spec. Check the vendor documentation for current limits. Through Jentic, rate limiting is handled automatically with retry logic built into the execution layer.

### How do I historical and forecast weather API through Jentic?

Install the Jentic SDK with pip install jentic, authenticate through Jentic One, the self-hosted execution layer, then search for 'historical and forecast weather API'. Jentic returns the matching Visual Crossing Weather API operation with its input schema. Load the schema and execute the call - credentials are injected automatically.

### How many endpoints does the Visual Crossing Weather API have?

The Visual Crossing Weather API exposes 5 endpoints covering visualcrossingwebservices operations.

### Can I limit what my agent is allowed to do with the Visual Crossing Weather API?

Yes. Because you self-host Jentic One, your own rules decide which Visual Crossing operations and credentials the agent may use, so you can scope it to just the timeline forecast or historical weather queries it actually needs. The API is read only and takes a location and dates as request inputs, so none of the operations you allow can change any data. You grant only that set, and the agent cannot call anything outside it.