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Reputation: 61

NOAA Weather REST API causes error when requesting with curl

I am trying to write a python program using NOAA's Climate Data Online REST Web Services (http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/webservices/v2#data). But, I am running into errors in my request responses. When attempting a request with curl from command line I input:

curl -H "token:<MYTOKEN>" http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/api/v2/data?datasetid=GHCND&locationid=ZIP:22405&startdate=1999-10-05&enddate=1999-10-25

It returns this response:

[1] 24322
[2] 24323
[3] 24324
phil@philUbu:~$ <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><response><statusCode>400</statusCode><userMessage>There was an error with the request.</userMessage><developerMessage>Required parameter 'startdate' is missing.</developerMessage></response>
[1]   Done                    curl -H "token:..." http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/api/v2/data?datasetid=GHCND
[2]-  Done                    locationid=ZIP:22405
[3]+  Done                    startdate=1999-10-05

For some reason it thinks I am missing the startdate, but I have included it and it is in the proper format according to the documentation. Does anybody have any ideas of what the problem could be?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1357

Answers (1)

eduffy
eduffy

Reputation: 40262

The ampersands in the url are probably being parsed by your shell. Put single quotes around it:

 curl -H "token:<MYTOKEN>" 'http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/api/v2/data?datasetid=GHCND&locationid=ZIP:22405&startdate=1999-10-05&enddate=1999-10-25'

Upvotes: 1

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