# Mocking API services in development and testing with WireMock — Use a live API in production to fetch real-time weather data from AccuWeather

> To enhance your Node.js application with real-time weather data, you can seamlessly integrate the AccuWeather API.

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## Knowledge

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To enhance your Node.js application with real-time weather data, you can seamlessly integrate the AccuWeather API. This section of the guide will walk you through the steps involved in setting up a non-containerized Node.js application and fetching weather information directly from the AccuWeather API.

Create an AccuWeather API Key

Sign up for a free AccuWeather developer account at Within your account, create a new app by selecting MY APPS on the top navigation menu to get your unique API key.

Diagram showing the AccuWeather Dashboard

Change directory to accuweather-api

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```console
   $ cd accuweather-api
```

Set your AccuWeather API key using the .env file

&gt; [!TIP] &gt; To prevent conflicts, ensure that any existing environment variables named API_ENDPOINT_BASE or ACCUWEATHER_API_KEY are removed before modifying the .env file.

Run the following command on your terminal

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```console
   unset API_ENDPOINT_BASE
   unset ACCUWEATHER_API_KEY
```

It’s time to set the environment variables in the .env file

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```plaintext
   ACCUWEATHER_API_KEY=XXXXXX
   API_ENDPOINT_BASE=http://dataservice.accuweather.com
```

Make sure to populate ACCUWEATHER_API_KEY with the correct value.

Run the following command to install the required packages

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```console
   $ npm install
```

This will install all the packages listed in your package.json file. These packages are essential for the project to function correctly.

If you encounter any warnings related to deprecated packages, you can ignore them for now for this demonstration.

Assuming that you don’t have a pre-existing Node server running on your system, go ahead and start the Node server by running the following command

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```console
   $ npm run start
```

You should see the following output

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```plaintext
   &gt; express-api-starter@1.2.0 start
   &gt; node src/index.js

   API_ENDPOINT_BASE: http://dataservice.accuweather.com
   ACCUWEATHER_API_KEY is set: true
   Listening: http://localhost:5001
``` …

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