bom-stat

This is a dead simple api to fetch a range of statistics, recent weather observations and climate data from the Australian Data Archive for Meteorology, a database which holds weather observations dating back to the mid 1800s.

It provide same functionality of Climate Data Online (CDO).

Provide station number and it will return all the historical data, rainfall, minimum, or maximum temperature.

Installation

npm install bom-scraper --save

Usage

const { getHistoricalData } = require('bom-stat')

const params = {
	station:  '086338',
	type:  'monthly',
	about:  'rainfall'
}

getHistoricalData(params, function (err, data) {
	console.log(data)
})

Return

[
	{
	    station: '086338',	// Station Number
	    year: '2013',
	    data: { 
		    annual: '374.4', 
		    months: [64.4, 54.2, ...]	// 12 elements, each represents a month, Jan, Feb, ...
		}
	},
	...
]

Params

All the params are similar to the inputs in the Climate Data Online system.

station

Type: String

Required: true

Example: '086338'

A unique 6-digits number represent a station. You could get this by lat/lon according to the Observations List from BOM.

type

Type: String

Required: true

Value: 'daily' | 'monthly'

Default: 'monthly'

The type of data.

about

Type: String

Required: true

Value: 'rainfall' | 'mintemperature' | 'maxtemperature'

The type of data.

year

Type: Number

Value: Number | null

Only use for daily data. Set it to null for all years of data.