SkyCast is a component that drops a live, auto‑updating weather card onto any page in Rapidweaver Elements. Just type a location name and SkyCast finds the coordinates for you automatically, pulling current conditions and a multi‑day forecast straight from Open‑Meteo – no API key to request, no account to set up, no coordinates to look up by hand.
It's built for any site where visitors want to know the weather before they arrive – a hotel, a tourist attraction, a ski resort, a campsite, a holiday rental. Inside a CMS Item or Collection, Location Name and coordinates accept Twig references from your front matter, so a single component instance can show a different city on every entry – a location directory, a set of listings, a multi‑branch business.
Every detail is built to fit your design rather than fight it. Colors, fonts and sizes come straight from your theme and follow light and dark mode, so a change in Theme Studio carries through to every card. Choose Horizontal or Vertical layout, Full or Compact size, and decide exactly which details show – description, wind, humidity, rain chance. Weekdays, weather descriptions and labels switch language automatically to match your site, seven languages built in.
For an exact spot instead of a name lookup, enter Latitude and Longitude directly – SkyCast uses them straight away. And if a location can't be found or the weather service is briefly unavailable, SkyCast shows a clean fallback card instead of an empty gap in your layout. Built natively for Rapidweaver Elements, everything is configured visually in the inspector – no HTML, JavaScript or CSS to write.
SkyCast: Real weather, zero setup
What you get
- The SkyCast component for Rapidweaver Elements
- Live weather from Open‑Meteo – current conditions plus a 3 to 5 day forecast, refreshed automatically
- Type a location name and SkyCast finds the coordinates for you – no API key, no manual lookup
- Ambiguous name? Add a country or region – "Berlin, Ohio" instead of just "Berlin" – and SkyCast finds exactly that one
- Optional Latitude/Longitude override for an exact address or a place the geocoding database doesn't know
- Inside the Elements CMS, Location Name and coordinates accept Twig references – one component, a different city on every page
- Horizontal or Vertical layout, Full or Compact size
- Choose exactly which details show – description, wind, humidity, rain chance
- Seven languages built in – weekdays, weather descriptions and labels follow your site's language automatically: English (also the fallback for any other language), German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Dutch
- Silent fallback card instead of a gap in your layout if a location can't be found or the weather service is briefly unavailable
- Theme‑aware colors, picked straight from your theme palette
- Full light and dark mode support
- Included with your purchase: an example project file showing you exactly how to put SkyCast to work.
ⓘ Once installed, you'll find the demo project in the projects panel when creating a new project – click "See All Library Items" to show the full list.
- Fully responsive – works on all screen sizes
- Fully compatible with Rapidweaver Elements themes – change the theme and get a totally different design experience