Easy access to Meteo-France API

It currently covers downloading of:

Hourly climatotlogical data for one station
BRA (Bulletin d'Estimation du risque d'avalanche)

0. Get an account on Meteo-France API

Have a look to https://portail-api.meteofrance.fr/web/fr/faq !

1.Install

pip install git+https://git.vln-glr.fr/leo.viallon/mfapi.git

2.Configuration

Create a file containing;

[DEFAULT]
application_id = the-application-id-you-got-on-mf-api-website

L'application id se trouve sur le site API de Météo-France en cliquant sur user, Mes API, puis Générer Token. Il vous sera affiché une commande curl de la forme suivante: curl -k -X POST https://portail-api.meteofrance.fr/token -d "grant_type=client_credentials" -H "Authorization: Basic APPLICATION_ID"

3.Examples

3.1 The BRA

import mfapi
c = mfapi.MFAPIClient(config_file='path_to_your_config_file')
c.get_bra(23, format='pdf')  # 23 is the massif code of Mercantour (Alps : 1-23, Pyrenees: 64-74, Corsica: 40-41)

The file is stored as BRA_23.pdf.

You can also get XML format (and images needed to render with):

c.get_bra(23, format='xml', images=True)

3.2 Climatological data

import mfapi
import datetime
c = mfapi.MFAPIClient(config_file='path_to_your_config_file')
c.get_clim_h('65413400', begin=datetime.datetime(2024, 9, 1), end=datetime.datetime(2024, 12, 1))  # You first have to know the Station id

The data is stored under csv format.

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