OGIMET

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Meteosat-9/metar

GFS world weather maps

getbuoy

getbuoy is a small cgi binary which returns a file with undecoded buoy reports in CSV format.

The columns, separated by comma, are

WMOIND,YEAR,MONTH,DAY,HOUR,MIN,REPORT 
 
The URL of CGI is
 
http://www.ogimet.com/cgi-bin/getsynop
 
It need some arguments ala GET style
 
Dates of begin and end of time interval have the format YYYYMMDDHHmm

Where

YYYY Year (four digits)
MM (month, two digits)
DD (day, two digits)
HH (hour , two digits)
mm (minute, two digits)
 
Arguments 
 
begin=YYYYMMDDHHmm  (mandatory)
end=YYYYMMDDHHmm  (default is current time)
lang=eng (english, optional)
header=yes (include a first line with the name of columns)
block=First_digits_of_buoy_index

If 'block' are not selected, then is supossed all the world.

Better some examples:

1) All buoys with index begining with '123' FROM 200912010000 TILL 200912040000 
 
  http://www.ogimet.com/cgi-bin/getbuoy?block=123&begin=200912010000&end=200912040000

5) All buoys from 06 UTC to 07 UTC on 8 Jun 2011

  http://www.ogimet.com/cgi-bin/getbuoy?begin=201106080600&end=201106080700


There are some limits:

-No more than 100000 buoys in a petition. :-) 
 
You can play with libraries like curl to get directly your desired file.

curl "http://www.ogimet.com/cgi-bin/getbuoy?block=123&begin=200912010000&end=200912040000" -o "your_desired_file_name"
 
Same using wget 

wget "http://www.ogimet.com/cgi-bin/getbuoy?block=123&begin=200912010000&end=200912040000" -O "your_desired_file_name"

Enjoy! And please, don't abuse.