title: Testing third party API's
body: <p>I would like to test a third party API such as forecast.io, but I am not quite sure how to accomplish what I want to achieve.</p>
  
  <p>I have read all over the internet that I should use mock objects. However, the concept of mock objects is not what I need, as I do not want to test my implementation of the parsing rather than the network call itself.</p>
  
  <p>I want to test for example if the URL is still working, if my API key is still working, if the request is still in the expected format so GSON does not crash or other things directly related to the network call itself.</p>
  
  <p>Is there any good way to do this?</p>
  
  <p>Many thanks</p>
  
  <p>TLDR; I don't need mock objects!</p>