Get historical Australian rainfall data

Daily rainfall by BOM station, back to 1900 for the longest-running sites.

Steps

1Pass station_id and date range.
2Iterate daily totals.

Code

cURL

curl https://api.ausdata.io/v1/weather/rainfall-history \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY"

Python

import requests
r = requests.get(
    "https://api.ausdata.io/v1/weather/rainfall-history",
    headers={"Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_KEY"},
)
print(r.json())

JavaScript

const r = await fetch("https://api.ausdata.io/v1/weather/rainfall-history", {
  headers: { Authorization: "Bearer YOUR_KEY" },
});
console.log(await r.json());

Watch out for

Older records have gaps. The metadata field flags interpolated values.

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