WeatherAPI documentation

Introduction

Things you need to know before you start coding

• Terms of Service - please read this first
• Getting Started - read this tutorial next to understand the basic concepts
• Product versions - explanation of how the version numbers and deprecation works
• Licensing and Data Policy - what you can use our data for

HOWTOs

Step-by-step guides to implementing a client application

• Locationforecast HOWTO
• Setting up your own caching proxy server using Nginx

Reference documentation

Specifications and information for looking up as needed

Forecasts

• General forecast JSON format
• Locationforecast data model
• Nowcast data model
• Oceanforecast data model
• Sunrise/astro-api

General

• General usage - how to use the API
• HTTP status codes and response headers
• API v.3 release notes
• Third party client libraries
• Understanding RSS feeds

Frequently Asked Questions

Helpdesk’s greatest hits

• General FAQ about the API
• Locationforecast FAQ

Other data sources

• Map client and geolocation libraries
• WMS services (Under construction)
• Fetching gridded forecast data from THREDDS

Backend service development

For MET employees only

• Operational Level Agreement
• Medusa index file spec
• WeatherAPI as proxy for backend microservices

Keeping updated

Support

• News and contact information