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.met.no/list/valid-area
- JSON: https://radarapi.met.no/api/list/valid-area
- a list of available products for a given area and data type is available through
- HTML: https://radarapi.met.no/list/valid-area/valid-data-type
- JSON: https://radarapi.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.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.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.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
Streams - SSE
- General stream with all new product events
- https://radarapi.met.no/stream
- Stream with all new product events for a specific area
- https://radarapi.met.no/stream/area
- Stream with all new product events for a specific area and data type
- https://radarapi.met.no/stream/area/datatype
- Stream with all new product events for a specific area and data type - only the images
- https://radarapi.met.no/stream/area/datatype/image
- Stream with all new product events for a specific area and data type - only the animation
- https://radarapi.met.no/stream/area/datatype/animation
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.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.met.no/stream/alarms