# Struggling w/ OpenWeatherAPI

**URL:** <https://forum.bubble.io/t/struggling-w-openweatherapi/69741>\
**Category:** APIs\
**Created:** [October 22, 2019, 1:28am UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/struggling-w-openweatherapi/69741 "2019-10-22T01:28:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![cthrnbrnd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b77776/32.png) [@cthrnbrnd](https://forum.bubble.io/u/cthrnbrnd)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2019, 5:44pm UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/struggling-w-openweatherapi/69741/2 "2019-10-23T17:44:03Z")

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PROGRESS UPDATE:

I now have the API making the right call to the URL with [https://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?[](https://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?%5B)]&[] including appid and setting q to optional.

The next hurdle appears to be getting the city in a text box that only appears after the API call has been made and q has been set to the user input.

I plan on taking a tip from another topic on this forum: [Search box and external API](http://forum.bubble.io/t/search-box-and-external-api/26661), but if anyone wants to step in and provide info regarding the dynamic q so that the call will return the data, that’d be great.

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