nws-api-client 0.10.1

Typed Python client for the National Weather Service API

nws-api-client

Type-safe and developer-friendly Python client for the National Weather Service API.

[!INFO] This first pass, built with Speakeasy, required changing the "official" NWS OpenAPI spec. Deprecated endpoints were removed, a few anyOf (various enums)schemas were merged to a single enum, and a few other minor changes.

[!NOTE] The National Weather Service would like to know who is using their API. Please include a user agent with all API requests where value = your company name and email (a contactable email address). This is the same as the HTTP header 'User-Agent'. They'd also like to be able to contact you if there's an issue with your use of the API.

Summary

weather.gov API: weather.gov API

For more information about the API: Full API documentation

Table of Contents

• nws-api-client
  • SDK Installation
  • SDK Example Usage
  • Authentication
  • Available Resources and Operations
  • Retries
  • Error Handling
  • Server Selection
  • Custom HTTP Client
  • Resource Management
  • Debugging
• Development
  • Maturity
  • Contributions

SDK Installation

[!NOTE] Python version upgrade policy

Once a Python version reaches its official end of life date, a 3-month grace period is provided for users to upgrade. Following this grace period, the minimum python version supported in the SDK will be updated.

The SDK can be installed with either pip or poetry package managers.

PIP

PIP is the default package installer for Python, enabling easy installation and management of packages from PyPI via the command line.

pip install nws-api-client

Poetry

Poetry is a modern tool that simplifies dependency management and package publishing by using a single pyproject.toml file to handle project metadata and dependencies.

poetry add nws-api-client

Shell and script usage with uv

You can use this SDK in a Python shell with uv and the uvx command that comes with it like so:

uvx --from nws-api-client python

It's also possible to write a standalone Python script without needing to set up a whole project like so:

#!/usr/bin/env -S uv run --script
# /// script
# requires-python = ">=3.9"
# dependencies = [
#     "nws-api-client",
# ]
# ///

from nws_api_client import NwsClient

sdk = NwsClient(
  # SDK arguments
)

# Rest of script here...

Once that is saved to a file, you can run it with uv run script.py where script.py can be replaced with the actual file name.

SDK Example Usage

Get Locations for a Text Product Type

Get a list of locations that issue a particular forecast text product (like "AFD" for "Area Forecast Discussion")

# Synchronous Example
from nws_api_client import NwsClient
import os


with NwsClient(
    user_agent=os.getenv("NWSCLIENT_USER_AGENT", ""),
) as nws_client:

    res = nws_client.products_type_locations(type_id="AFD")

    # Handle response
    print(res)

The same SDK client can also be used to make asychronous requests by importing asyncio.

# Asynchronous Example
import asyncio
from nws_api_client import NwsClient
import os

async def main():

    async with NwsClient(
        user_agent=os.getenv("NWSCLIENT_USER_AGENT", ""),
    ) as nws_client:

        res = await nws_client.products_type_locations_async(type_id="AFD")

        # Handle response
        print(res)

asyncio.run(main())

Authentication

Per-Client Security Schemes

This SDK supports the following security scheme globally:

Name	Type	Scheme	Environment Variable
user_agent	apiKey	API key	NWSCLIENT_USER_AGENT

To authenticate with the API the user_agent parameter must be set when initializing the SDK client instance. For example:

from nws_api_client import NwsClient
import os


with NwsClient(
    user_agent=os.getenv("NWSCLIENT_USER_AGENT", ""),
) as nws_client:

    res = nws_client.alerts_query()

    # Handle response
    print(res)

Available Resources and Operations

Available methods

NwsClient SDK

• alerts_query - Returns all alerts
• alerts_active - Returns all currently active alerts
• alerts_active_count - Returns info on the number of active alerts
• alerts_active_zone - Returns active alerts for the given NWS public zone or county
• alerts_active_area - Returns active alerts for the given area (state or marine area)
• alerts_active_region - Returns active alerts for the given marine region
• alerts_types - Returns a list of alert types
• alerts_single - Returns a specific alert
• cwsu - Returns metadata about a Center Weather Service Unit
• cwas - Returns a list of Center Weather Advisories from a CWSU
• cwa - Returns a list of Center Weather Advisories from a CWSU
• sigmet_query - Returns a list of SIGMET/AIRMETs
• sigmets_by_atsu - Returns a list of SIGMET/AIRMETs for the specified ATSU
• sigmets_by_atsu_by_date - Returns a list of SIGMET/AIRMETs for the specified ATSU for the specified date
• sigmet - Returns a specific SIGMET/AIRMET
• glossary - Returns glossary terms
• gridpoint - Returns raw numerical forecast data for a 2.5km grid area
• gridpoint_forecast - Returns a textual forecast for a 2.5km grid area
• gridpoint_forecast_hourly - Returns a textual hourly forecast for a 2.5km grid area
• gridpoint_stations - Returns a list of observation stations usable for a given 2.5km grid area
• station_observation_list - Returns a list of observations for a given station
• station_observation_latest - Returns the latest observation for a station
• station_observation_time - Returns a single observation.
• tafs - Returns Terminal Aerodrome Forecasts for the specified airport station.
• taf - Returns a single Terminal Aerodrome Forecast.
• obs_stations - Returns a list of observation stations.
• obs_station - Returns metadata about a given observation station
• office - Returns metadata about a NWS forecast office
• office_headline - Returns a specific news headline for a given NWS office
• office_headlines - Returns a list of news headlines for a given NWS office
• point - Returns metadata about a given latitude/longitude point
• radar_servers - Returns a list of radar servers
• radar_server - Returns metadata about a given radar server
• radar_stations - Returns a list of radar stations
• radar_station - Returns metadata about a given radar station
• radar_station_alarms - Returns metadata about a given radar station alarms
• radar_queue - Returns metadata about a given radar queue
• radar_profiler - Returns metadata about a given radar wind profiler
• products_query - Returns a list of text products
• product_locations - Returns a list of valid text product issuance locations
• product_types - Returns a list of valid text product types and codes
• product - Returns a specific text product
• products_type - Returns a list of text products of a given type
• products_type_locations - Returns a list of valid text product issuance locations for a given product type
• location_products - Returns a list of valid text product types for a given issuance location
• products_type_location - Returns a list of text products of a given type for a given issuance location
• zone_list - Returns a list of zones
• zone_list_type - Returns a list of zones of a given type
• zone - Returns metadata about a given zone
• zone_forecast - Returns the current zone forecast for a given zone
• zone_obs - Returns a list of observations for a given zone
• zone_stations - Returns a list of observation stations for a given zone

Retries

Some of the endpoints in this SDK support retries. If you use the SDK without any configuration, it will fall back to the default retry strategy provided by the API. However, the default retry strategy can be overridden on a per-operation basis, or across the entire SDK.

To change the default retry strategy for a single API call, simply provide a RetryConfig object to the call:

from nws_api_client import NwsClient
from nws_api_client.utils import BackoffStrategy, RetryConfig
import os


with NwsClient(
    user_agent=os.getenv("NWSCLIENT_USER_AGENT", ""),
) as nws_client:

    res = nws_client.alerts_query(,
        RetryConfig("backoff", BackoffStrategy(1, 50, 1.1, 100), False))

    # Handle response
    print(res)

If you'd like to override the default retry strategy for all operations that support retries, you can use the retry_config optional parameter when initializing the SDK:

from nws_api_client import NwsClient
from nws_api_client.utils import BackoffStrategy, RetryConfig
import os


with NwsClient(
    retry_config=RetryConfig("backoff", BackoffStrategy(1, 50, 1.1, 100), False),
    user_agent=os.getenv("NWSCLIENT_USER_AGENT", ""),
) as nws_client:

    res = nws_client.alerts_query()

    # Handle response
    print(res)

Error Handling

Handling errors in this SDK should largely match your expectations. All operations return a response object or raise an exception.

By default, an API error will raise a errors.APIError exception, which has the following properties:

Property	Type	Description
.status_code	int	The HTTP status code
.message	str	The error message
.raw_response	httpx.Response	The raw HTTP response
.body	str	The response content

When custom error responses are specified for an operation, the SDK may also raise their associated exceptions. You can refer to respective Errors tables in SDK docs for more details on possible exception types for each operation. For example, the alerts_query_async method may raise the following exceptions:

Error Type	Status Code	Content Type
errors.APIError	4XX, 5XX	*/*

Example

from nws_api_client import NwsClient, errors
import os


with NwsClient(
    user_agent=os.getenv("NWSCLIENT_USER_AGENT", ""),
) as nws_client:
    res = None
    try:

        res = nws_client.alerts_query()

        # Handle response
        print(res)

    except errors.APIError as e:
        # handle exception
        raise(e)

Server Selection

Override Server URL Per-Client

The default server can be overridden globally by passing a URL to the server_url: str optional parameter when initializing the SDK client instance. For example:

from nws_api_client import NwsClient
import os


with NwsClient(
    server_url="https://api.weather.gov",
    user_agent=os.getenv("NWSCLIENT_USER_AGENT", ""),
) as nws_client:

    res = nws_client.alerts_query()

    # Handle response
    print(res)

Custom HTTP Client

The Python SDK makes API calls using the httpx HTTP library. In order to provide a convenient way to configure timeouts, cookies, proxies, custom headers, and other low-level configuration, you can initialize the SDK client with your own HTTP client instance. Depending on whether you are using the sync or async version of the SDK, you can pass an instance of HttpClient or AsyncHttpClient respectively, which are Protocol's ensuring that the client has the necessary methods to make API calls. This allows you to wrap the client with your own custom logic, such as adding custom headers, logging, or error handling, or you can just pass an instance of httpx.Client or httpx.AsyncClient directly.

For example, you could specify a header for every request that this sdk makes as follows:

from nws_api_client import NwsClient
import httpx

http_client = httpx.Client(headers={"x-custom-header": "someValue"})
s = NwsClient(client=http_client)

or you could wrap the client with your own custom logic:

from nws_api_client import NwsClient
from nws_api_client.httpclient import AsyncHttpClient
import httpx

class CustomClient(AsyncHttpClient):
    client: AsyncHttpClient

    def __init__(self, client: AsyncHttpClient):
        self.client = client

    async def send(
        self,
        request: httpx.Request,
        *,
        stream: bool = False,
        auth: Union[
            httpx._types.AuthTypes, httpx._client.UseClientDefault, None
        ] = httpx.USE_CLIENT_DEFAULT,
        follow_redirects: Union[
            bool, httpx._client.UseClientDefault
        ] = httpx.USE_CLIENT_DEFAULT,
    ) -> httpx.Response:
        request.headers["Client-Level-Header"] = "added by client"

        return await self.client.send(
            request, stream=stream, auth=auth, follow_redirects=follow_redirects
        )

    def build_request(
        self,
        method: str,
        url: httpx._types.URLTypes,
        *,
        content: Optional[httpx._types.RequestContent] = None,
        data: Optional[httpx._types.RequestData] = None,
        files: Optional[httpx._types.RequestFiles] = None,
        json: Optional[Any] = None,
        params: Optional[httpx._types.QueryParamTypes] = None,
        headers: Optional[httpx._types.HeaderTypes] = None,
        cookies: Optional[httpx._types.CookieTypes] = None,
        timeout: Union[
            httpx._types.TimeoutTypes, httpx._client.UseClientDefault
        ] = httpx.USE_CLIENT_DEFAULT,
        extensions: Optional[httpx._types.RequestExtensions] = None,
    ) -> httpx.Request:
        return self.client.build_request(
            method,
            url,
            content=content,
            data=data,
            files=files,
            json=json,
            params=params,
            headers=headers,
            cookies=cookies,
            timeout=timeout,
            extensions=extensions,
        )

s = NwsClient(async_client=CustomClient(httpx.AsyncClient()))

Resource Management

The NwsClient class implements the context manager protocol and registers a finalizer function to close the underlying sync and async HTTPX clients it uses under the hood. This will close HTTP connections, release memory and free up other resources held by the SDK. In short-lived Python programs and notebooks that make a few SDK method calls, resource management may not be a concern. However, in longer-lived programs, it is beneficial to create a single SDK instance via a context manager and reuse it across the application.

from nws_api_client import NwsClient
import os
def main():

    with NwsClient(
        user_agent=os.getenv("NWSCLIENT_USER_AGENT", ""),
    ) as nws_client:
        # Rest of application here...


# Or when using async:
async def amain():

    async with NwsClient(
        user_agent=os.getenv("NWSCLIENT_USER_AGENT", ""),
    ) as nws_client:
        # Rest of application here...

Debugging

You can setup your SDK to emit debug logs for SDK requests and responses.

You can pass your own logger class directly into your SDK.

from nws_api_client import NwsClient
import logging

logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG)
s = NwsClient(debug_logger=logging.getLogger("nws_api_client"))

You can also enable a default debug logger by setting an environment variable NWSCLIENT_DEBUG to true.

Development

Maturity

This SDK is in beta, and there may be breaking changes between versions without a major version update. Therefore, I recommend pinning usage to a specific package version. This way, you can install the same version each time without breaking changes unless you are intentionally looking for the latest version.

Contributions

While I value open-source contributions to this SDK, this library is currently generated programmatically. Any manual changes added to internal files will be overwritten on the next generation. We look forward to hearing your feedback. Feel free to open a PR or an issue with a proof of concept and we'll do our best to include it in a future release.

Initial SDK Created by Speakeasy