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National Weather Service

National Weather Service Offices API

The Offices API from National Weather Service — 8 operation(s) for offices.

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National Weather Service Offices 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 Offices. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and API documentation.

This API exposes 8 operations across 8 paths, and defines 14 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version 3.8.1.

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

8 operations 8 paths 14 schemas 8 GET

Metadata

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Specification
OpenAPI 3.2.0
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 Offices 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 8

Across 8 paths, the API surfaces 8 operations — 8 GET. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Offices 8
GET
/offices/{officeId}
Returns metadata about a NWS forecast office
office 1 param → 200default
GET
/offices/{officeId}/briefing
Returns active briefing for an NWS office
office_briefing 1 param → 200default
GET
/offices/{officeId}/briefing/download/latest
Returns the latest briefing for an office
office_briefing_download_latest 1 param → 302default
GET
/offices/{officeId}/briefing/download/{briefingId}
Returns a briefing for an office
office_briefing_download 2 params → 200default
GET
/offices/{officeId}/headlines/{headlineId}
Returns a specific news headline for a given NWS office
office_headline 2 params → 200default
GET
/offices/{officeId}/headlines
Returns a list of news headlines for a given NWS office
office_headlines 1 param → 200default
GET
/offices/{officeId}/weatherstories
Returns active weather stories for an NWS office
office_weatherstory 1 param → 200default
GET
/offices/{officeId}/weatherstories/download/{imageId}
Returns the image for a weather story
office_weatherstory_image 2 params → 200default

Schemas 14

The contract defines 14 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are Office (16 properties), OfficeHeadline (11 properties), NWSConnectDocumentMetadata (8 properties), ProblemDetail (6 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

NWSOfficeId
NWSConnectDocumentMetadata
object
Metadata for an NWS Connect document.
8 properties
OfficeWeatherStoryCollection
array
NWSForecastOfficeId
string
Three-letter identifier for a NWS office.
NWSRegionalHQId
string
Three-letter identifier for a NWS Regional HQ.
NWSNationalHQId
string
Three-letter identifier for NWS National HQ.
OfficeHeadline
object
11 properties
ProblemDetail
object
Detail about an error. This document conforms to RFC 7807 (Problem Details for HTTP APIs).
6 properties 6 required
Office
object
16 properties
OfficeBriefing
OfficeWeatherStory
9 required
JsonLdContext
BinaryFile
string
OfficeHeadlineCollection
object
2 properties 2 required

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

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

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API Details
ID
national-weather-service:national-weather-service-offices-api
Base URL
https://api.weather.gov/
Docs
https://www.weather.gov/documentation/services-web-api
Provider
National Weather Service
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