SImple query through the API

juanfal

I used to be a Pro-user of windy and have used other weather services. I need, through the windy API, to know ONLY the:

Temperature
Percentage of clouds
Wind speed and direction
Wind Gust

Of a spot of specific latitude/longitude.

I do not need more info through the API interface. I am using other services APIs and are relatively easier to use since the data the return is simpler. They use the GET protocol and directly return those values. I have tried the POST method Windy uses, and managed to get some data, but not the 5 previous values… I haven’t found neither an example nor good documentation on it.

Do you know a simple Python script to do it, or a specific piece of documentation?

Suty

@juanfal Hi, did you check the documentation here.

juanfal

@Suty Thanks! I know where the document is, but it returns arrays of wind vectors, and I only need Wind Speed, Wind Gust, and Wind Direction. I haven't found any examples of those data retrieve.

Norman Vine

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Norman Vine

@juanfal
https://github.com/uniquezhiyuan/windy.com_api
Might get you started

juanfal

@Norman-Vine Wow, you have found the only example, in Chinese, that I have also found. It tells me that things aren't going any better than I suspected. The GitHub uniquezhiyuan/windy.com_api is a forecast based on a sql read of data read from a very particular and personal use of the resulting vectors programmed in something Python-based. Is that the simplest example for using windy on the whole internet?

I was asking for something as basic as this:

    API = 'weatherapi'
    APIKEY = 'the api key'
    weaAPI = requests.get(f'http://api.weatherapi.com/v1/current.json?key={APIKEY}&q={lat},{lon}').json()
    clouds = float(weaAPI['current']['cloud'])
    speed =  float(weaAPI['current']['wind_kph'])
    gust = float(weaAPI['current']['gust_kph'])
    windD =  int(weaAPI['current']['wind_degree'])
    temp = float(weaAPI['current']['temp_c'])

I understand that the answers from windy.com are much more complete and really interesting. But what I need right now is just those simple values. So the answer, I'm afraid, is that there are no examples of simple queries. am I wrong?

The simplest query to windy.com I have got from the documentation is:


url = "https://api.windy.com/api/point-forecast/v2"
post = {
    "lat": lat,
    "lon": lon,
    "model": "gfs",
    "parameters": ["temp", "wind", "windGust", "lclouds", "mclouds"],
    "levels": ["surface"],
    "key": APIKEY
}
try:
    windy = requests.post('https://api.windy.com/api/point-forecast/v2', json = post, timeout=3)
    windy.raise_for_status()
except requests.exceptions.HTTPError as errh:
    print ("Http Error:", errh)
except requests.exceptions.ConnectionError as errc:
    print ("Error Connecting:", errc)
except requests.exceptions.Timeout as errt:
    print ("Timeout Error:", errt)
except requests.exceptions.RequestException as err:
    print ("OOps Windy requests: Some error", err)

windy = windy.json()

and the print(windy) gives me something like this:

{'gust-surface': [2.6194823225185035,
                  3.0163365604850116,
                  .... lots of lines with shuffled random values
                  2.4690057168341943],
 'lclouds-surface': [0,
                     0,
                     0,
                  .... lots of lines with shuffled random values
                     0,
                     4.843888058107189],
 'mclouds-surface': [0,
                     0,
                     0,
                     0,
                  .... lots of lines with shuffled random values
                     0,
                     0],
 'temp-surface': [296.4423746203281,
                  297.58808776929845,
                  300.3296806435589,
                  .... lots of lines with shuffled random values
                298.22235477543,
                  295.07155453287373],
 'ts': [1718874000000,
        1718884800000,
        1718895600000,
                  .... lots of lines with shuffled random values
       1719727200000],
 'units': {'gust-surface': 'm*s-1',
           'lclouds-surface': '%',
           'mclouds-surface': '%',
           'temp-surface': 'K',
           'wind_u-surface': 'm*s-1',
           'wind_v-surface': 'm*s-1'},
 'warning': 'The trial API version is for development purposes only. This data '
            'is randomly shuffled and slightly modified.',
 'wind_u-surface': [1.3641749667211287,
                    -2.068869953527833,
                    -1.868909421509168,
                  .... lots of lines with shuffled random values
                    -0.6153779885029739],
 'wind_v-surface': [0.6080014487060029,
                    -3.3782315058471184,
                    1.5184114269056044,
                  .... lots of lines with shuffled random values
                    2.700416395397793,
                    3.2247825998125013]}

How to deal with these numbers. I only want these float numbers:

clouds = float(weaAPI['current']['cloud'])
speed =  float(weaAPI['current']['wind_kph'])
gust = float(weaAPI['current']['gust_kph'])
windD =  int(weaAPI['current']['wind_degree'])
temp = float(weaAPI['current']['temp_c'])

at the surface level, I suppose.

Thanks in advance