MeteoGalicia-API 0.1.10

Description

MeteoGalicia-API implements an interface to the MeteoGalicia Rest web services.

Documentation about MeteoGalicia web service is available at https://www.meteogalicia.gal/web/RSS/rssIndex.action?request_locale=es.

This package has been developed to be used with homeassistant-meteogalicia integration for Home-Assistant

Disclaimer

This software is provided without warranty, and should therefore not be used where it may endanger life, financial stakes, or cause discomfort and inconvenience to others. Is also licensed under the GNU Public Licence version 3

Usage

Example:

from meteogalicia_api.interface import MeteoGalicia
meteogalicia = MeteoGalicia()
meteogalicia.get_forecast_data("32054")
meteogalicia.get_observation_data("15023")

Custom session and timeout:

import requests
from meteogalicia_api.interface import MeteoGalicia

session = requests.Session()
meteogalicia = MeteoGalicia(session=session, timeout=10)
meteogalicia.get_forecast_data("32054")

Tide forecasts are dated in Europe/Madrid, including when the caller runs in another timezone. The date field describes today's RSS item; todayDate, tomorrowDate and yesterdayDate are local calendar dates in ISO format. The tomorrowTides field contains all tides for tomorrow, while tomorrowFirstTide remains available. RSS items are selected by forecast date rather than their order in the response. Timezone rules fall back to the packaged tzdata when the host has no IANA database.

Town hall or city data methods:

meteogalicia.get_forecast_data("32054")
meteogalicia.get_hourly_forecast_data("32054")
meteogalicia.get_medium_term_forecast_data("32054")
meteogalicia.get_warnings_data("32054")
meteogalicia.get_max_warning_levels_data("32054")
meteogalicia.get_observation_data("15023")

Parameter id's are available at https://www.meteogalicia.gal/datosred/infoweb/meteo/docs/rss/JSON_Pred_Concello_es.pdf

Hourly and medium term forecasts:

Both methods return the original JSON dictionary, including the forecast wrapper. They return None if the request fails, the forecast container is missing or is not an object, or its prediction list is missing, empty or is not a list. Individual records are returned unchanged; the client does not validate every field.

• Hourly dataPredicion values use local time in Galicia (Europe/Madrid) and contain no UTC offset. The client does not convert them to UTC. Consumers must account for the local time zone and daylight saving changes.
• MeteoGalicia uses -9999 for unavailable weather values. The client preserves this sentinel; consumers should treat it as missing data, not as a temperature, probability or valid weather code.
• Medium term icoCeo1, icoCeo2 and icoCeo3 are possible sky conditions with corresponding probIcoCeo1, probIcoCeo2 and probIcoCeo3 probabilities. They are not morning, afternoon and night forecasts. Use the probabilities when choosing a representative condition.
• The medium term forecast starts after the short term forecast. The number of days and hours varies with availability; combine daily forecasts using their dates rather than assuming fixed list lengths.

data = meteogalicia.get_hourly_forecast_data("15030")
if data is not None:
    for day in data["predHoraria"]["listaPredDiaHoraria"]:
        for hour in day["listaPredHora"]:
            temperature = hour.get("tMedia")
            if temperature is not None and temperature != -9999:
                print(hour["dataPredicion"], temperature)

Official response schemas and weather codes: hourly forecast and medium term forecast.

Warning methods:

# Detailed warnings: level, alert type and validity period.
warnings = meteogalicia.get_warnings_data("15030", day=-1)

# MeteoGalicia's own maximum warning level summary.
levels = meteogalicia.get_max_warning_levels_data("15030", day=-1)

The optional day argument accepts 0 (today), 1 (tomorrow), 2 (the day after tomorrow) and -1 (all available days). Both methods return the original MeteoGalicia JSON dictionary. In both endpoints, including requests for a single day, listaDiaConcellos contains day objects with a dia field and either listaAvisosConcellos or listaNiveisMaximos. Select days by dia, not their position in the list.

if warnings is not None:
    for daily in warnings["listaDiaConcellos"]:
        print(daily["dia"], daily["listaAvisosConcellos"])

An empty daily list is a valid response: for detailed warnings it means there are no warnings for that day. Malformed responses and request failures return None.

• get_warnings_data() uses jsonAvisosConcellos.action and exposes individual warnings, including idNivel, dataAviso, dataIni, dataFin, idTipoAlerta, tipoalerta_gl and tipoalerta_es.
• get_max_warning_levels_data() uses jsonConcellosNivelMax.action and exposes MeteoGalicia's nivelMax summary (0 normal, 1 yellow, 2 orange, 3 red).

Official documentation: complete municipal warnings and maximum municipal warning level.

Configuration catalogs:

# Static municipal catalog, optionally filtered by province.
concellos = meteogalicia.get_concellos("A Coruña")

# Live MeteoGalicia station catalog, optionally filtered by province/concello.
stations = meteogalicia.get_stations(
    province="A Coruña",
    concello="Santiago de Compostela",
)

get_concellos() returns dictionaries containing idConcello, concello and provincia. Municipal identifiers are maintained as a static catalog because they are effectively stable and are used by forecast and warning services.

get_stations() reads MeteoGalicia's current station catalog and returns the original station dictionaries, optionally filtered by province and concello. Station identifiers (idEstacion) are separate from municipal identifiers (idConcello); callers should not interchange them.

Station methods:

meteogalicia.get_observation_dailydata_by_station("10144")
meteogalicia.get_observation_last10mindata_by_station("10144")

Parameter station id's and the live station catalog are available at https://servizos.meteogalicia.gal/mgrss/observacion/listaEstacionsMeteo.action?request_locale=gl

Tides methods:

meteogalicia.get_forecast_tide("3")

id availables at: https://www.meteogalicia.gal/datosred/infoweb/meteo/docs/rss/RSS_Mareas_gl.pdf

Errors:

Methods return None by default when a request fails or no data is available. The last_error attribute describes the most recent failure and is cleared by the next successful request. Enable raise_on_error=True to handle typed errors:

from meteogalicia_api.errors import MeteoGaliciaError
from meteogalicia_api.interface import MeteoGalicia

client = MeteoGalicia(timeout=10, raise_on_error=True)
try:
    forecast = client.get_forecast_data("15030")
except MeteoGaliciaError as error:
    print(error.kind, error.retryable, error.retry_after)

Error types distinguish connection failures, timeouts, HTTP status errors, invalid responses and missing data. HTTP errors expose status_code. A valid Retry-After header on HTTP 429 or 5xx responses is returned in seconds. The client does not retry automatically; callers can choose their own retry policy.

Publishing

After merging a version change, push a branch named publish/v<VERSION> at the merged commit. The publication workflow tests and validates distributions, checks the version, publishes to PyPI using Trusted Publishing, and creates the GitHub release only after PyPI succeeds. Publishing an existing release remains supported.