rundat's esmeralda-web API

This is NOT an official API, just few functions dealing with esmeralda-web in order to provide an API for developpers.

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What can it do?

Fetch data from esmeralda-web, if needed, cache it, and filter it before returning it as JSON.

Usage

Get data

You need to set up a server, copying esmeralda-web-api.php somewhere you can reach it. You may want to edit $DATADIR variable which define where to store data fetched, and which is by default the same directory as esmeralda-web-api.php.

Once you have the address of a suitable server, send a GET request to it with the following optional parameters:

• d: the date, formated as Y-m-d. Default is current time.
• s: comma-separated stations list. You may use PCRE regexp instead of real station names. Default selects all.
• p: comma-separated pollutants list. Default selects all.

Example:

[...]?d=2014-10-01&s=idf3.Paris_18,idf3.Paris_12&p=PM10,NO2

Use data

Returned data are JSON, with the following format:

{
  "station_zone.station_name" :
  {
    "POLLUTANT" : [day-1, day, day+1, day+2],
    ... other available pollutants ...
  },
  ... other stations ...
}

So, it returns an object whose each member key is a station (prefixed by its region) with another object associating available pollutant name and concentrations as value.

Good to know

Data fetched are open data, for everyone, with the only requirement that one using them will have to display esmeralda logo and web site address in any publication.

These are raw data, which would need intrepretation by an expert.