An Open Meteo SDK for R
openmeteo provides functions for accessing the Open-Meteo weather API, enabling the
desired weather data or forecasts to be retrieved in a tidy data format.
An API key is not required to access the Open-Meteo API.
Install and load with:
install.packages("openmeteo") library(openmeteo)
Getting current weather for a location is as easy as:
weather_now('tokyo')
Explore the documentation with ?openmeteo
Open-Meteo provides several API endpoints through the following functions:
Core Weather APIs - weather_forecast()
- retrieve weather forecasts for a location -
weather_history() - retrieve historical weather
observations for a location - weather_now() - simple
function to return current weather for a location -
weather_variables() - retrieve a shortlist of valid
forecast or historical weather variables provided
Other APIs - geocode() - return the
co-ordinates and other data for a location name -
climate_forecast() - return long-range climate modelling
for a location - river_discharge() - return flow volumes
for the nearest river - marine_forecast() - return ocean
conditions data for a location - air_quality() - return air
quality data for a location
Please review the API documentation at Open-Meteo.com for details regarding the data available, its types, units, and other caveats and considerations.
Please feel free to raise any issues / pull requests if your use case is not supported.