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National Weather Service Products API

The Products API from National Weather Service — 9 operation(s) for products.

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

This API exposes 9 operations across 9 paths, and defines 6 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.

9 operations 9 paths 6 schemas 9 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 Products 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 9

Across 9 paths, the API surfaces 9 operations — 9 GET. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Products 9
GET
/products
Returns a list of text products
products_query 7 params → 200default
GET
/products/locations
Returns a list of valid text product issuance locations
product_locations → 200default
GET
/products/types
Returns a list of valid text product types and codes
product_types → 200default
GET
/products/{productId}
Returns a specific text product
product 1 param → 200default
GET
/products/types/{typeId}
Returns a list of text products of a given type
products_type 1 param → 200default
GET
/products/types/{typeId}/locations
Returns a list of valid text product issuance locations for a given product type
products_type_locations 1 param → 200default
GET
/products/locations/{locationId}/types
Returns a list of valid text product types for a given issuance location
location_products 1 param → 200default
GET
/products/types/{typeId}/locations/{locationId}
Returns a list of text products of a given type for a given issuance location
products_type_location 2 params → 200default
GET
/products/types/{typeId}/locations/{locationId}/latest
Returns latest text products of a given type for a given issuance location with product text
latest_product_type_location 2 params → 200default

Schemas 6

The contract defines 6 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are TextProduct (9 properties), ProblemDetail (6 properties), TextProductCollection (2 properties), TextProductTypeCollection (2 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
TextProductLocationCollection
object
2 properties
TextProduct
object
9 properties
JsonLdContext
TextProductTypeCollection
object
2 properties
TextProductCollection
object
2 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

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

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