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NOAA — National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Points API

The Points API from NOAA — National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration — 3 operation(s) for points.

NOAA — National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Points API is one of 24 APIs that NOAA — National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include Points. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, a GitHub repository, and a changelog.

This API exposes 3 operations across 3 paths, and defines 19 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.1.2, at version 3.9.2.

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

3 operations 3 paths 19 schemas 3 GET

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.1.2
API Version
3.9.2
Base URL
https://api.weather.gov
Authentication
API Key, API Key
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 2

NOAA — National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Points 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 3

Across 3 paths, the API surfaces 3 operations — 3 GET. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Points 3
GET
/points/{latitude},{longitude}
Returns metadata about a given latitude/longitude point
point 2 params → 200default
GET
/points/{latitude},{longitude}/radio
Returns NOAA Weather Radio broadcast script for a latitude/longitude point
point_radio 2 params → 200default
GET
/points/{latitude},{longitude}/stationsdeprecated
Returns a list of observation stations for a given point
point_stations 2 params → 301default

Schemas 19

The contract defines 19 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are Point (22 properties), AstronomicalData (9 properties), ProblemDetail (6 properties), QuantitativeValue (5 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

Point
object
22 properties
GeoJsonBoundingBox
array
A GeoJSON bounding box. Please refer to IETF RFC 7946 for information on the GeoJSON format.
PointGeoJson
GeoJsonGeometry
A GeoJSON geometry object. Please refer to IETF RFC 7946 for information on the GeoJSON format.
RelativeLocationJsonLd
GeoJsonLineString
array
A GeoJSON line string. Please refer to IETF RFC 7946 for information on the GeoJSON format.
GeoJsonFeature
object
A GeoJSON feature. Please refer to IETF RFC 7946 for information on the GeoJSON format.
5 properties 3 required
RelativeLocation
object
4 properties
NWSForecastOfficeId
string
Three-letter identifier for a NWS office.
UnitOfMeasure
string
A string denoting a unit of measure, expressed in the format "{unit}" or "{namespace}:{unit}". Units with the namespace "wmo" or "wmoUnit" are defined in the W…
QuantitativeValue
object
A structured value representing a measurement and its unit of measure. This object is a slightly modified version of the schema.org definition at https://schem…
5 properties
PointJsonLd
GeoJsonCoordinate
array
A GeoJSON coordinate. Please refer to IETF RFC 7946 for information on the GeoJSON format.
AstronomicalData
object
An object representing sunrise, sunset, and twilight information for a location.
9 properties
GeometryString
stringnull
A geometry represented in Well-Known Text (WKT) format.
RelativeLocationGeoJson
GeoJsonPolygon
array
A GeoJSON polygon. Please refer to IETF RFC 7946 for information on the GeoJSON format.
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

noaa-gov-points-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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