Best Practices

This document provides some common practices and experiences in using our services so that you can access data easily and quickly.

Never assume weather data is always complete or fixed; make your application handle changes to fields, enum values, and null values correctly.

Learn how to build valid and secure API requests, handle errors correctly, and reduce unnecessary data requests.

QWeather APIs require Gzip compression to reduce network traffic and speed up requests.

Learn how to set reasonable and flexible caching strategies for different weather data, including recommended cache durations and restrictions.

QWeather provides multiple security measures to protect your API requests and sensitive information.