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National Weather Service Glossary API

The Glossary API from National Weather Service — 1 operation(s) for glossary.

National Weather Service Glossary API is one of 13 APIs that National Weather Service publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include Glossary. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and API documentation.

This API exposes 1 operation across 1 path, and defines 2 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.1.2, at version 3.8.1.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://api.weather.gov.

1 operations 1 paths 2 schemas 1 GET

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.1.2
API Version
3.8.1
Base URL
https://api.weather.gov/
Authentication
API Key, API Key
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 2

National Weather Service Glossary API declares 2 security schemes for authenticating requests. An API key is passed in the header as User-Agent (userAgent). An API key is passed in the header as API-Key (apiKeyAuth). By default, every request must be authenticated.

  • userAgent — We require that all consumers of the API include a User-Agent header in requests. This is due to a high number of scripts exhibiting abusive behavior (intentio…
  • apiKeyAuth — We are testing including a more traditional API Key system on certain endpoints. This is due to a large change in the weather.gov site. The API remains open an…

Paths & Operations 1

Across 1 path, the API surfaces 1 operation — 1 GET. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Glossary 1
GET
/glossary
Returns glossary terms
glossary → 200default

Schemas 2

The contract defines 2 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed is ProblemDetail (6 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

ProblemDetail
object
Detail about an error. This document conforms to RFC 7807 (Problem Details for HTTP APIs).
6 properties 6 required
JsonLdContext

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

national-weather-service-glossary-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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