Weather Triggers API Part 1 | What is the Weather Triggers API

Today we are happy to tell you about our Weather Triggers API, a weather targeting solution with broad application in various areas.

What is the Weather Triggers API?

The Weather Triggers API is a flexible tool, which allows developers to set trigger conditions and provides possibility for end-users to monitor trigger execution in real-time.

The major feature of the Weather Triggers API is the ability to be customised for an end-user request.

What can you do with the Weather Triggers API?

The Weather Triggers API supports weather conditions as in weather APIs: wind speed, temperature, humidity, etc. The API syntax is quite simple and consists of few methods. Required parameters are period of time and location. The full list of supported trigger conditions is available here.

Nevertheless, query of triggers execution and their further interpretation should be carried out by the end-user.

How to start working with the Weather Triggers API

Please, follow few steps:

1. Sign up or log in. Your API key (appid) will be provided in your account details.

2. Set time period, location and trigger conditions like temperature, pressure, humidity, wind speed, wind direction and cloud cover.

3. Call the Triggers API to check execution of trigger conditions.

Moreover, weather alerts and triggers can be modified and their status could be checked at any time. Learn more.

For further questions, please contact us at info@openweathermap.org.