Weatherize Your Business With Meteum API
In today’s world, where having direct, unhindered access to up-to-date information is the key to success, we aim to make your weather-dependent enterprise more efficient and profitable than ever.
Drive your company in the black by seamlessly integrating our API into your IT infrastructure and optimizing your processes. Help your employees make the most suitable decisions. Mitigate weather-related risks with preemptive weather alerts. Get high-quality weather info in a human-legible form and use it in any way you’d like.
Still not convinced? Let’s review what makes the Meteum API a perfect solution for your business tasks.
Benefits of Integrating Meteum API
While it’s handy to have a user-facing weather app like ours on your phone for daily use, many industries require more in-depth weather data that casual users might not even consider. In that case, the Meteum API is exactly what you need, and it packs a punch!
Check out our case studies to understand how Meteum performs in real-life settings.
In all these cases, we helped organizations both enrich and streamline their processes.
Features
Forecasts
The Meteum API will provide you with a constant stream of accurate forecasts for any length of time, ranging from real-time weather observations to hourly nowcasts to long-term predictions looking up to a month into the future. Don’t overlook weather alerts: they’ll warn you of any impending radical atmospheric shifts.
Climate
Get live data fresh off the weather stations and radars around the globe. Retrieve historical records of climate change. Using the Meteum API, you can view the average statistics of climate data for the last ten years. The data can be specified for days, weeks, or months. Peek into the atmospheric shifts to come. Tweak our customizable weather maps to display exactly what your business needs.
Analytics and data
With our API, you can access and integrate a rich assortment of data, not necessarily only pertaining to weather. We are happy to share every bit of data we have. Apart from comprehensive weather analytics, you can receive marine data and monitor the area’s air pollution and pollen count. Furthermore, Meteum API allows you to run custom atmospheric simulations and access satellite pictures from our providers, such as GEOSAT.
You may refer to our API documentation for request examples, lists of available parameters, and guidance for easy integration.
How to Send a Request to Meteum API
Requests to the Meteum API can be created using the GraphQL language. GraphQL is used to capture a schema describing the API data in a way understandable to users. This schema unambiguously defines how a query to the API should be generated and what the response format will be.
The main advantage of the GraphQL schema (compared to REST API, for example) is the ability to get any subset of data in a single request. Thanks to this, you can write much shorter and clearer code since you don’t have to build the logic for merging response data when requesting different data types.
Moreover, most weather API providers charge for a particular number of API requests per unit of time. This means that getting all the data you need in one request (instead of multiple requests) is more cost-effective.
A request is a simple text that’s similar to a JSON object. Each request is enclosed in curly braces:
Let’s go over a sample request for retrieving data for a specific location:
The main point of this request is to call the weatherByPoint method with the request parameter, for which a specific value is set:
By doing so, you’re basically telling the system, “give me weather info at this location,” and specifying which point we want to get data for. Next, you need to specify precisely what data you need. To do this, add the necessary structures to the request:
By executing this request, here’s what we’ll get in the response:
You don’t need to search and decode weather data. Our software engineers know how to handle different formats and create easy-to-integrate interfaces. Start using weather and climate data with our API and integrate it with any system or application. We have any kind of data you need.
Experiment with our interactive playground for mock API requests, which will give you a glimpse of our solution’s impressive capabilities. Next, you can test the entire feature set by grabbing your free key at meteum.io and running more queries or integrating the Meteum API into your environment. And if you’re looking for something special that we haven’t covered, just contact us — we’ll do our best to satisfy your needs.
