# Weather Binding: Invalid API key

**URL:** <https://community.openhab.org/t/weather-binding-invalid-api-key/59321>\
**Category:** Bindings\
**Tags:** weather, openhab2, openweathermap\
**Created:** [December 9, 2018, 9:41pm UTC](https://community.openhab.org/t/weather-binding-invalid-api-key/59321 "2018-12-09T21:41:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![rossko57](https://community.openhab.org/user_avatar/community.openhab.org/rossko57/32/70263_2.png) [@rossko57](https://community.openhab.org/u/rossko57)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2018, 2:41am UTC](https://community.openhab.org/t/weather-binding-invalid-api-key/59321/2 "2018-12-10T02:41:51Z")

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This message can be prompted by requesting forecasts that are not allowed for free keys

> [@\[SOLVED\] Can't retrieve OpenWeatherMap data. Invalid API key](https://community.openhab.org/t/solved-cant-retrieve-openweathermap-data-invalid-api-key/50727):
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> Dear Everyone! I have changed from Yahoo to OpenWeatherMap, because Yahoo was really unrealiable and stopped working completely in the last days. OpenWeatherMap seems good for me, I have created an account, got an API key. If I issue an API call with my key, it works perfectly. OpenHab also shows all the data. However I get this error every time… Can't retreive weather data: Invalid API key. Please see http://openweathermap.org/faq#error401 for more info. Does anyone know why? Thanks!

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