The University of Sheffield's own research API, built and run by the Sheffield Solar group in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. It publishes PV_Live — near-real-time and historical estimates of solar photovoltaic generation on the GB transmission network, by Grid Supply Point and Public Electricity Supplier region — plus PV_Live_EU over European NUTS regions and PV_Forecast day-ahead forecasts. PV_Live read endpoints are keyless and answered 200 on probe; PV_Forecast returns 401 without a registered X-User-Id header. The institution publishes its own OpenAPI 3.1 document, a Swagger UI and a Redoc rendering. This is the one contract in this repository that Sheffield actually wrote.
Sheffield Solar API is one of 5 APIs that University of Sheffield publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
This API exposes 2 JSON Schema definitions.
Tagged areas include Solar Energy, Energy Data, Research Data, Open Data, and Time Series. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, an API reference, a status page, a support channel, a JSON-LD context, and 2 JSON Schemas.
This API exposes
51 operations
across 43 paths,
organized into 10 resource areas,
and defines 18 schemas.
It is described by OpenAPI 3.1.0, at version 0.1.0.
Requests are made against a single base URL, https://api.solar.sheffield.ac.uk.
51 operations43 paths18 schemas1 DELETE30 GET2 PATCH18 POST
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Sheffield Solar API declares
3 security schemes
for authenticating requests.
It supports OAuth 2.0 (OAuth2PasswordBearer) using the password flow.
An API key is passed in the cookie as ssapi_session (APIKeyCookie).
It accepts HTTP basic authentication (HTTPBasic).
Paths & Operations 51
Across 43 paths, the API surfaces 51 operations — 1 DELETE, 30 GET, 2 PATCH, 18 POST. They span 10 resource areas: pvlive, pvlive_eu, pvforecast, health, admin, auth, api-auth, users, Operations, metrics. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
The contract defines 18 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are UserCreate (10 properties), UserUpdate (10 properties), UserRead (10 properties), Body_handle_registration_user_register_post (9 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
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