Webservice API

Quick start

Get list of stations with a simple unauthenticated request:

$ curl https://openmeteo.org/api/stations/

Response:

{
  "count": 109,
  "next": "http://openmeteo.org/api/stations/?page=2",
  "previous": null,
  "bounding_box": [
    7.58748007,
    34.9857333,
    32.9850667,
    53.85553
  ],
  "results": [
    {
      "id": 1386,
      "last_update": "2013-12-12T10:22:30Z",
      "last_modified": "2013-10-10T05:04:42.478447Z",
      "name": "ΡΕΜΑ ΠΙΚΡΟΔΑΦΝΗΣ",
      "code": "ΠΙΚΡΟΔΑΦΝΗ",
      "remarks": "ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΟ ΚΕΝΤΡΟ ΘΑΛΑΣΣΙΩΝ ΕΡΕΥΝΩΝ",
      "original_srid": 2100,
      "altitude": 2,
      "geom": "SRID=4326;POINT (23.7025252977241 37.91860884428689)",
      "start_date": "2012-09-20",
      "end_date": null,
      "owner": 11,
      "overseer": "",
      "maintainers": []
    },
    ...
  ],
}

Some requests need authentication. First, you need to get a token:

curl -X POST -d "username=alice" -d "password=topsecret" \
    https://openmeteo.org/api/auth/login/

Response:

{"key": "24122a7ad9cfec48eb536f5ca12fe06116ba3593"}

Subsequently, you can make authenticated requests to the API; for example, the following will update a time series, modifying its variable field:

curl -H "Authorization: token 24122a7ad9cfec48eb536f5ca12fe06116ba3593" \
    -X PATCH -d "variable=1" \
    https://openmeteo.org/api/stations/1334/timeseries/10657/

The response will be 200 with the following content:

{
  "id": 10657,
  "last_modified": "2011-06-22T06:54:17.064484Z",
  "name": "Wind gust (2000-2006)",
  "hidden": false,
  "precision": 1,
  "remarks": "Type: Raw data",
  "gentity": 1334,
  "variable": 1,
  "unit_of_measurement": 7,
  "time_step": "10min"
}

Authentication and user management

Client authentication

Use OAuth2 token authentication:

curl -H "Authorization: token OAUTH-TOKEN" https://openmeteo.org/api/

To get a token, POST to /auth/login/:

curl -X POST -d "username=alice" -d "password=topsecret" \
    https://openmeteo.org/api/auth/login/

This will result in something like this:

{"key": "24122a7ad9cfec48eb536f5ca12fe06116ba3593"}

You can invalidate a token by POST to /auth/logout/:

curl -X POST -H "Authorization: token OAUTH-TOKEN" \
    https://openmeteo.org/api/auth/logout/

The response is 200 with this content:

{"detail":"Successfully logged out."}

Password management

To change password, POST to /auth/password/change/:

curl -X POST -H "Authorization: token OAUTH-TOKEN" \
   -d "old_password=topsecret1" \
   -d "new_password1=topsecret2" -d "new_password2=topsecret2" \
   https://openmeteo.org/api/auth/password/change/

If all goes well, the response is a 200 with the following content:

{"detail": "New password has been saved."}

If there is an error, the response is a 400 with a standard error response.

To reset the password, POST to /auth/password/reset/:

curl -X POST -d "email=myself@example.com" \
    https://openmeteo.org/api/auth/password/reset/

This will respond with 200 and the following content:

{"detail":"Password reset e-mail has been sent."}

The response will be 200 even if there is no record of this email address (but in this case the response will be ignored); this is in order to avoid disclosing which email addresses are registered. However, the response will be 400 with a standard error response if the email address is invalid.

The user will subsequently be sent an email with a link (under /api/auth/password/reset/confirm/) that provides a page where the user can specify a new password. After succeeding in specifying a new password, he is redirected to /api/auth/password/reset/complete/, which is a page that says “your password has been set”. However these two aren’t API endpoints (they’re just the convenient defaults of dj-rest-auth).

User profile management

To get the user data, GET /auth/user:

curl -H "Authorization: token OAUTH-TOKEN" \
   https://openmeteo.org/api/auth/user/

This will normally result in a 200 response with content like this:

{
    "pk": 166,
    "username": "alice",
    "email": "alice@example.com",
    "first_name": "Alice",
    "last_name": "Burton"
}

You can modify these attributes except for pk and email by PUT or PATCH to the same endpoint:

curl -X PATCH -H "Authorization: token OAUTH-TOKEN" \
   -d "username=joe" https://openmeteo.org/api/auth/user/

The response is a 200 with a similar content as the GET response (with the updated data), unless there is a problem, in which case there’s a standard error response.

Lookups

GET a single object for stationtypes:

curl https://openmeteo.org/api/stationtypes/1/

Response:

{
  "id": 1,
  "last_modified": "2011-06-22T05:21:05.436765Z",
  "descr": "Meteorological",
}

GET the list of objects for stationtypes:

curl https://openmeteo.org/api/stationtypes/

The result is a paginated list of station types:

{
    "count": 8,
    "next": null,
    "previous": null,
    "results": [
        {...},
        {...},
        ...
    ]
}

Exactly the same applies to eventtypes and variables.

Besides these there are several other lookups for which the response is similar but may have additional information. These are organizations, persons, filetypes and units.

Response format for organizations:

{
  "id": 5,
  "last_modified": "2011-06-30T03:03:47.392265Z",
  "remarks": "",
  "name": "National Technical University of Athens - Dept. of Water Resources and Env. Engineering",
  "acronym": "N.T.U.A. - D.W.R.E.",
}

Response format for persons:

{
    "id": 17,
    "last_modified": null,
    "remarks": "",
    "last_name": "Christofides",
    "first_name": "Antonis",
    "middle_names": "Michael",
    "initials": "A. C.",
}

Response format for filetypes:

{
  "id": 7,
  "last_modified": "2011-06-22T05:04:03.461401Z",
  "descr": "png Picture",
  "mime_type": "image/png"
}

Response format for units:

{
  "id": 614,
  "last_modified": null,
  "descr": "Square metres",
  "symbol": "m²",
  "variables": []
}

Stations

Station detail

You can GET the detail of a single station at /api/stations/ID/:

curl https://openmeteo.org/api/stations/1334/

Response:

{
  "id": 1386,
  "last_update": "2013-12-12T10:22:30Z",
  "last_modified": "2013-10-10T05:04:42.478447Z",
  "name": "ΡΕΜΑ ΠΙΚΡΟΔΑΦΝΗΣ",
  "code": "ΠΙΚΡΟΔΑΦΝΗ",
  "remarks": "ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΟ ΚΕΝΤΡΟ ΘΑΛΑΣΣΙΩΝ ΕΡΕΥΝΩΝ",
  "original_srid": 2100,
  "altitude": 2,
  "geom": "SRID=4326;POINT (23.7025252977241 37.91860884428689)",
  "start_date": "2012-09-20",
  "end_date": null,
  "owner": 11,
  "overseer": "",
  "maintainers": []
}

List stations

GET the list of stations at /stations/:

curl https://openmeteo.org/api/stations/

The result is a paginated list of stations:

{
    "count": 109,
    "next": "http://openmeteo.org/api/stations/?page=2",
    "previous": null,
    "bounding_box": [7.58748, 37.03330, 26.88787, 53.85553]
    "results": [
        {...},
        {...},
        ...
    ]
}

Except for the standard paginated list attributes count, next, previous and results, the returned object also contains bounding_box: this is the rectangle that encloses all stations this query returns (not only of this page): longitude and latitude of lower left corner, longitude and latitude of top right corner.

Search stations

Limit the returned stations with the q parameter. The following will return all stations where the specified words appear anywhere in the name, remarks, owner name, or timeseries remarks. The match is case insensitive, and the words are actually substrings (i.e. they can match part of a word):

curl 'https://openmeteo.org/api/stations/?q=athens+research'

The search string specified by q consists of space-delimited search terms. The result set is the “and” of all search terms. If a search term does not contain a colon (:), it is searched mostly everywhere, as explained above. If it does contain a colon, then the form of the search term is search_type:words. The words cannot contain a space (this is rarely a problem; instead of searching for “ionian islands”, searching for “ionian” is usually fine). Search terms where the search_type isn’t recognized are ignored.

You can search specifically by owner:

curl 'https://openmeteo.org/api/stations/?q=owner:ntua'

Or by type:

curl 'https://openmeteo.org/api/stations/?q=type:meteorological'

Or by variable (i.e. one of the timeseries of the station refers to that variable):

curl 'https://openmeteo.org/api/stations/?q=variable:temperature'

You can also search by bounding box. The following will find stations that are enclosed in the specified rectangle (the numbers are longitude and latitude of lower-left and top-right corner):

curl 'https://openmeteo.org/api/stations/?q=bbox:22.5,37.0,24.3,39.1'

You can include only stations that have time series by specifying the search term ts_only:, without a search word:

curl 'https://openmeteo.org/api/stations/?q=ts_only:'

Finally, ts_has_years can limit to stations based on the range of their time series. The following will find stations that have at least one time series containing records in 1988, at least one time series containing records in 1989, and at least one time series containing records in 2004:

curl 'https://openmeteo.org/api/stations/?q=ts_has_years:1988,1989,2004'

Sort the list of stations

Sort the returned stations with the sort parameter, which can be specified many times. This will sort by start date, then by name:

curl 'https://openmeteo.org/api/stations/?sort=start_date&sort=name'

Export stations in a CSV

Sometimes users want to get the list of stations and process it in a spreadsheet. This does this:

curl https://openmeteo.org/api/stations/csv/ >data.zip

The list can be sorted and filtered with the q and sort parameters as explained above. The result is a zip file that contains a CSV with the stations and a CSV with all the time series (their metadata only) of these stations. These lists contain all the columns, so users can do whatever they want with them.

Create, update or delete stations

DELETE a station:

curl -X DELETE -H "Authorization: token OAUTH-TOKEN" \
    https://openmeteo.org/api/stations/1334/

The response is normally 204 (no content) or 404.

POST to create a station:

curl -X POST -H "Authorization: token OAUTH-TOKEN" \
    -d "name=My station" -d "geom=POINT(20.94565 39.12102)" \
    -d "owner=11" https://openmeteo.org/api/stations/

The response is a 201 with a similar content as the GET detail response (with the new data), unless there is a problem, in which case there’s a standard error response.

When specifying nested objects, these objects are not created or updated—only the id is used and a reference to the nested object with that id is created.

PUT or PATCH a station:

curl -X PATCH -H "Authorization: token OAUTH-TOKEN" \
    -d "name=Your station" https://openmeteo.org/api/stations/1334/

The response is a 200 with a similar content as the GET detail response (with the updated data), unless there is a problem, in which case there’s a standard error response. Nested objects are handled in the same way as for POST (see above).

Time series groups

Time series group detail

You can GET the detail of a single time series group at /api/stations/XXX/timeseriesgroups/YYY/:

curl https://openmeteo.org/api/stations/1403/timeseriesgroups/483/

Response:

{
    "id": 522,
    "last_modified": "2015-04-05T05:33:41.140506-05:00",
    "name": "Temperature",
    "hidden": false,
    "precision": 2,
    "remarks": "",
    "gentity": 1403,
    "variable": 5683,
    "unit_of_measurement": 14,
}

List time series groups

GET the list of time series groups for a station at /api/stations/XXX/timeseriesgroups/:

curl https://openmeteo.org/api/stations/1403/timeseriesgroups/

The result is a paginated list of time series groups:

{
    "count": 13,
    "next": null,
    "previous": null,
    "results": [
        {...},
        {...},
        ...
    ]
}

Create, update or delete time series groups

DELETE a time series group:

curl -X DELETE -H "Authorization: token OAUTH-TOKEN" \
    https://openmeteo.org/api/stations/1334/timeseriesgroups/851/

The response is normally 204 (no content) or 404.

POST to create a time series group:

curl -X POST -H "Authorization: token OAUTH-TOKEN" \
    -d "name=My time series group" -d "gentity=1334" \
    -d "variable=5" -d "unit_of_measurement=3" \
    -d "precision=2" \
    https://openmeteo.org/api/stations/1334/timeseriesgroups/

The response is a 201 with a similar content as the GET detail response (with the new data), unless there is a problem, in which case there’s a standard error response.

PUT or PATCH a time series group:

curl -X PATCH -H "Authorization: token OAUTH-TOKEN" \
    -d "precision=1" \
    https://openmeteo.org/api/stations/1334/timeseriesgroups/851/

The response is a 200 with a similar content as the GET detail response (with the updated data), unless there is a problem, in which case there’s a standard error response.

Time series

Time series detail

You can GET the detail of a single time series at /api/stations/XXX/timeseriesgroups/YYY/timeseries/ZZZ/:

curl https://openmeteo.org/api/stations/1403/timeseriesgroups/483/timeseries/9511/

Response:

{
    "id": 9511,
    "last_modified": "2015-04-05T05:33:41.140506-05:00",
    "type": "Initial",
    "time_step": "10min",
    "timeseries_group": 483
}

The type is one of Initial, Checked, Regularized, and Aggregated.

List time series

GET the list of time series for a group at /api/stations/XXX/timeseriesgroups/YYY/timeseries/:

curl https://openmeteo.org/api/stations/1403/timeseriesgroups/483/timeseries/

The result is a paginated list of time series:

{
    "count": 5,
    "next": null,
    "previous": null,
    "results": [
        {...},
        {...},
        ...
    ]
}

Create time series

POST to create a time series:

curl -X POST -H "Authorization: token OAUTH-TOKEN" \
    -d "timeseries_group=42" -d "type=Initial"-d "time_step=H" \
    https://openmeteo.org/api/stations/5/timeseriesgroups/42/timeseries/

The response is a 201 with a similar content as the GET detail response (with the new data), unless there is a problem, in which case there’s a standard error response.

When specifying nested objects, these objects are not created or updated—only the id is used and a reference to the nested object with that id is created.

Time series data

GET the data of a time series in CSV by appending data/ to the URL:

curl https://openmeteo.org/api/stations/1334/timeseriesgroup/232/timeseries/10659/data/

Example of response:

1998-12-10 16:40,6.3,
1998-12-10 16:50,6.1,
1998-12-10 17:00,6.0,
1998-12-10 17:10,5.6,
...

You can specify the time zone of the timestamps with the timezone parameter:

curl https://openmeteo.org/api/stations/1334/timeseriesgroup/232/timeseries/10659/data/?timezone=UTC

Appropriate values for timezone are from the Olson database.

Instead of CSV, you can get HTS by specifying the parameter fmt=hts:

curl 'https://openmeteo.org/api/stations/1334/timeseriesgroup/235/timeseries/10659/data/?fmt=hts`

Response:

Count=926108
Title=Temperature (from 1998)
Comment=NTUA University Campus of Zografou
Comment=
Comment=Type: Raw data
Timezone=Etc/GMT-2 (UTC+0200)
Time_step=10,0
Variable=Mean temperature
Precision=1
Location=23.787430 37.973850 4326
Altitude=219.00

1998-12-10 16:40,6.3,
1998-12-10 16:50,6.1,
1998-12-10 17:00,6.0,
1998-12-10 17:10,5.6,
...

Get only the last record of the time series (in CSV) with bottom/:

curl https://openmeteo.org/api/stations/1334/timeseriesgroup/235/timeseries/10659/bottom/

Response:

2018-07-09 11:19,0.000000,

Append data to the time series:

curl -X POST -H "Authorization: token OAUTH-TOKEN" \
    -d $'timeseries_records=2018-12-19T11:50,25.0,\n2018-12-19T12:00,25.1,\n' \
    -d 'timezone=Etc/GMT-2' \
    https://openmeteo.org/api/stations/1334/timeseriesgroups/235/timeseries/10659/data/

(The $'...' is a bash idiom that does nothing more than escape the \n in the string.)

The response is normally 204 (no content).

Time series chart data

GET statistics for timeseries data in intervals by appending chart/:

curl https://openmeteo.org/api/stations/1334/timeseries/232/chart/

Example of response:

[
  {
    "timestamp": 1579292086,
    "min": "1.00",
    "max": "18.00",
    "mean": 14.00"
  },
  {
    "timestamp": 1580079590,
    "min": "4.00",
    "max": "22.00",
    "mean": "18.53"
  },
  ...
]

You can provide time limits using the following query parameters start_date=<TIME>&end_date=<TIME>. For instance, to request data prior to 2015 only, we can make the following request:

curl 'https://openmeteo.org/api/stations/1334/timeseries/232/chart/?end_date=2015-01-01T00:00`

The purpose of this endpoint is to be used when creating a chart for the time series. When the user pans or zooms the chart, a new request with different start_date and/or end_date is made. While transferring the entire time series to the client would be simpler, it can be too large. This endpoint only provides 200 points, so the transfer is instant.

What the endpoint does is divide the time between start_date and end_date (or the entire time series time range) in 200 intervals. For each interval it returns the interval’s statistics and the middle of the interval as the timestamp.

Other items of stations

Media and other station files

List station files:

curl https://openmeteo.org/api/stations/1334/files/

Response:

{
  "count": 8,
  "next": null,
  "previous": null,
  "results": [
    {
      "id": 39,
      "last_modified": "2011-06-22T07:53:01.349877Z",
      "date": "1998-01-05",
      "content": "https://openmeteo.org/media/gentityfile/imported_hydria_gentityfile_1334-4.jpg",
      "descr": "West view",
      "remarks": "",
      "gentity": 1334
    },
    ...
  ]
}

Or you can get the detail of a single one:

curl https://openmeteo.org/api/stations/1334/files/39/

Response:

{
  "id": 39,
  "last_modified": "2011-06-22T07:53:01.349877Z",
  "date": "1998-01-05",
  "content": "https://openmeteo.org/media/gentityfile/imported_hydria_gentityfile_1334-4.jpg",
  "descr": "West view",
  "remarks": "",
  "gentity": 1334
},

Get content of such files:

curl https://openmeteo.org/api/stations/1334/files/39/content/

The response is the contents of the file (usually binary data). The response headers contain the appropriate Content-Type (derived from the file’s extension).

Events

List or get detail of station events:

curl https://openmeteo.org/api/stations/1334/events/
curl https://openmeteo.org/api/stations/1334/events/524/

Response example for the detail request:

{
  "id": 524,
  "last_modified": null,
  "date": "1998-12-10",
  "user": "",
  "report": "Added air temperature and humidity sensor.",
  "gentity": 1334,
  "type": 2
},

For the list request, the result is a paginated list of items.

Pagination

Some responses contain a paginated list. This has the following format:

{
  "count": 109,
  "next": "http://openmeteo.org/api/stations/?page=2",
  "previous": null,
  "results": [
      {...},
      {...},
      {...},
      ...
    ]
}

The returned object contains the following attributes:

results

A list of items. Up to 20 items are returned (but this is configurable by specifying REST_FRAMEWORK["PAGE_SIZE"] in the settings).

count

The total number of items this request returns. If they are 20 or fewer, there is no other page.

next, previous

The URLs for the next and previous page of results.

Error responses

When there is an error with the data of a POST, PATCH or PUT request, the response code is 400 and the content has an error message for each problematic field. For example:

curl -v -X POST -H "Authorization: token OAUTH-TOKEN" \
-d "gentity=1334" -d "variable=1234" \
https://openmeteo.org/api/stations/1334/timeseries/

Response:

{
  "unit_of_measurement": [
    "This field is required."
  ],
  "variable": [
    "Invalid pk \"1234\" - object does not exist."
  ]
}

If there is an error that does not apply to a specific field but to the data as a whole, the error message goes into non_field_errors:

{
  "non_field_errors": [
    "A time series with timeseries_group_id=2 and type=Initial already exists"
  ]
}