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getsynop

getsynop is a small cgi binary which returns a file with undecoded synop 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)
state=Begin_of_state_string 
block=First_digits_of_WMO_IND
ship=yes (to get ship reports for a time interval over the whole world)

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

Better some examples:

1) All synops AFTER 200912160000 for states begining with 'Pol, i.e. 'Poland'
 
http://www.ogimet.com/cgi-bin/getsynop?begin=200912160000&state=Pol&lang=eng
 
2) All synops for 15-dec-2009 . Poland
 
 http://www.ogimet.com/cgi-bin/getsynop?begin=200912150000&end=200912152359&state=Pol
 
3) All synops for WMO index begining with '123' FROM 200912010000 TILL 200912040000 
 
  http://www.ogimet.com/cgi-bin/getsynop?block=123&begin=200912010000&end=200912040000

4) All ships from 06 UTC to 07 UTC on 8 Jun 2011
 
  http://www.ogimet.com/cgi-bin/getsynop?begin=201106080600&end=201106080700&ship=yes

5) All synop and synop-mobil from a land station from 06 UTC to 07 UTC on 8 Jun 2011

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


There are some limits:

-No more than 200000 synops in a petition. :-) 
 
You can play with libraries like curl to get directly your desired file.

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

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

Enjoy! And please, don't abuse.