get-metars

Simple command line tool to download METAR's and TAF's for a given station and store them in text files.

Requirements

This package requires:

• Python ^3.9

Python because it was developed on that version.

Installation

For install only run this command from your terminal

pip install get-metars

Update

Update with pip adding the option --upgrade

pip install --upgrade get-metars

Examples

The data are downloaded from Ogimet.com, so be nice and don't saturate the server. This site only accepts requests of data of 31 days or less at a time.

To download data for a specific month (i.e. january 2022) of JFK INT. Airport only run

get-metars kjfk --init 2022-01-01

The program will understand that you want all data of the month.

If you need only the METAR's run

get-metars kjfk --init 2022-01-01 --type SA

where SA means METAR type of aeronautical report. Type get-metars --help to see all the available options.

If you need a specific time of period you need to give the initial and final datetimes, as follows

get-metars kjfk --init 2021-12-05T01:00:00 --final 2021-12-10T22:30:00 --type SP

where SP means SPECI type of aeronautical reports.

To standarize the reports for TAF-VER verification program add the flag --sanitize or -s. To make the program store the reports in one line add the flag --one-line or -o. By default, reports are written to the file with the datetime prefix with format %Y%m%d%H%M. If you want to remove that prefix add the flag --no-datetime-prefix.

So that's it. Simple no? Have a happy coding :D