Welcome to radar product API

Description

The aim of this API is to provide the end user with visualisations of radar products for a selected set of areas and data types. The API provides a list, or overview, of available areas and the data types available for these areas.

Available

Please take a look at the list of available areas and data types for each area (HTML or JSON) to get an overview over which areas and data types you may request.

You may also take a look at the Status overview page for a brief overview of available areas and data types.

Listings

There are several ways to get a list of available products

a list of available data types and product for a given area is available through

HTML: https://radarapi-a.met.no/list/valid-area
JSON: https://radarapi-a.met.no/api/list/valid-area

a list of available products for a given area and data type is available through

HTML: https://radarapi-a.met.no/list/valid-area/valid-data-type
JSON: https://radarapi-a.met.no/api/list/valid-area/valid-data-type

a list of all available products is available as HTML or JSON

Individual Products

There are three ways to get an individual product

https://radarapi-a.met.no/api/get/valid-area/valid-data-type/image
which will give you the most recent product for a given area and data type
https://radarapi-a.met.no/api/get/valid-area/valid-data-type/image/YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ
which will give you access to the product for the time-stamp given
https://radarapi-a.met.no/api/get/valid-area/valid-data-type/animation
which will give you the most recent animation of products for a given area and data type

Please note: All products have an expire time, and products will be removed when the expire time is exceeded. Requesting data which has been removed will result in a HTTP 404 "Not found" error message.

Streams - SSE

General stream with all new product events: https://radarapi-a.met.no/stream
Stream with all new product events for a specific area: https://radarapi-a.met.no/stream/area
Stream with all new product events for a specific area and data type: https://radarapi-a.met.no/stream/area/datatype
Stream with all new product events for a specific area and data type - only the images: https://radarapi-a.met.no/stream/area/datatype/image
Stream with all new product events for a specific area and data type - only the animation: https://radarapi-a.met.no/stream/area/datatype/animation

Please note: If you select one of the streams connected to a specific area, or area and data type, make sure the area is a valid one and that the data type is available for that particular area. Check the Status overview page for a brief overview of available areas and data types.

Radar Status Information and Alarms

Radar Status Information

Messages concerning radar status and scheduled maintenance are available through the API. These messages can be retrieved either as HTML or as JSON

To get a live update of these messages, you may also listen to the following SSE stream: https://radarapi-a.met.no/stream/radarstatus

Alarms

Messages concerning alarms, such as dBZ limit exceeded for MAX dBZ products, are available through the API. These messages can be retrieved as HTML or as JSON

To get a live update of these messages, you may also listen to the following SSE stream: https://radarapi-a.met.no/stream/alarms