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Meteosat-9/metar

GFS world weather maps

getmetar

getmetar is a small cgi binary which returns a file with undecoded metar reports in CSV format.

The columns, separated by comma, are

ICAOIND,YEAR,MONTH,DAY,HOUR,MIN,REPORT 
 
The URL of CGI is
 
http://www.ogimet.com/cgi-bin/getmetar
 
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)
state=Begin_of_state_string 
icao=First_letters_of_ICAO_index

If no 'state' nor 'icao' it is supossed all the world.

Better some examples:

1) All metar since 201003280000 till current day for all iaco indexes for  
countries beginning with 'Per' i.e. Peru. 
 
  http://www.ogimet.com/cgi-bin/getmetar?begin=201003280000&state=Per&lang=eng
 
2) All metar for january 1 2010 from Perú
 
  http://www.ogimet.com/cgi-bin/getmetar?begin=201001010000&end=201001012359&state=Per
 
3) All metars for icao index begining with 'SPZ'  since 200501010000 till 200801010000 
 
  http://www.ogimet.com/cgi-bin/getmetar?icao=SPZ&begin=200501010000&end=200801010000

4) All metars since  201106080000 till 201106080200 

  http://www.ogimet.com/cgi-bin/getmetar?begin=201106080000&end=201106080200


There are some limits:
  -No more than 100000 METAR per petition. :-)
 
You can use binaries like curl in your scripts to get your data in a easy way. As example:
 
  curl "http://www.ogimet.com/cgi-bin/getmetar?icao=SPZO&begin=200912010000&end=200912040000" -o "my_file"
 
will create the file 'my_file' with report metar from SPZO in the inidcated dates.
 
You can get the same using wget 

wget "http://www.ogimet.com/cgi-bin/getmetar?icao=SPZO&begin=200912010000&end=200912040000" -O "my_file"

Enjoy! And please, don't abuse.