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Per this ChatGPT answer, the API limits are 1500 calls per day, and 30 calls per minute.

You can view your usage -- by API -- at the following link. Click the 'Show Usage' button (lower left).
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It will show a chart like this
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BTW, on the screenshot in the previous post, I've just noted an upcoming "Expiration date" for my API Key (10/28/2025)..

I don't recall a notice of this when signing up. This is ~6 months from when I received the key (4/25/2025).

Anyway, I've set of up a calendar reminder. It will be interesting to learn if I can renew the API Key, or need to generate a new one.
 
A good bet. I update every 15 minutes and have yet to notice an issue.

The number of minutes between 6pm and noon the next day is 1080, which is close to 1000 calls/24h hours. This might be the daily limit.

I do it every minute and haven't had any issues. There are 1440 minutes in a day, so (based on what you showed above) doing it every minute should not make it exceed the 1500 limit.
 
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Per this ChatGPT answer, the API limits are 1500 calls per day, and 30 calls per minute.

You can view your usage -- by API -- at the following link. Click the 'Show Usage' button (lower left).
Login | Weather Underground

It will show a chart like this
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I probably should have known everything has a limit but never really paid attention to it. It had been working for a couple of years with the 1 minute updates but that was without a key and of course it stopped working when they started making us have a key. I'm at 1440 per day but I'm using the same API key for both myself and dad so my count is really 2880 a day LOL. Whoopsies....guess I need to create a key for dad.
 
I'm surprised you have it working at all without uploading data to Wunderground from a weather station. It literally says on the link Using Weather Underground (WU) that you provided, "If you don’t own a physical PWS, the generated PWS will not provide valid data. Do NOT use this PWS for weather adjustments."

Go to the map then zoom in on your area.


Pick one of those stations near you then get the Station ID then plug that into BIT along with the API Key you created.

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I probably should have known everything has a limit but never really paid attention to it. It had been working for a couple of years with the 1 minute updates but that was without a key and of course it stopped working when they started making us have a key. I'm at 1440 per day but I'm using the same API key for both myself and dad so my count is really 2880 a day LOL. Whoopsies....guess I need to create a key for dad.
Did you check your WU API key usage chart? Just wondering if ChatGPT is correct about the the 1500/day daily limit?