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Quick Start
Your API requests are authenticated using API keys. Keys can be created, retrieved, and deleted from your Account Dashboard. Under the
API Keys section you can generate multiple keys for a single account, however they will all be tied to the same quota. To make your first query, send an authenticated request to the raster/timeseries/point endpoint. The following code example will retrieve OpenET timeseries data from a single longitude, latitude point in a
json format. curl
Python
curl -X 'POST' \
'https://openet-api.org/raster/timeseries/point' \
-H 'accept: application/json' \
-H 'Authorization: YOUR_API_KEY' \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{
"date_range": [
"2020-01-01",
"2020-12-31"
],
"interval": "monthly",
"geometry": [
-121.36322,
38.87626
],
"model": "Ensemble",
"variable": "ET",
"reference_et": "gridMET",
"units": "mm",
"file_format": "JSON"
}'
import requests
# set your API key before making the request
header = {"Authorization": YOUR_API_KEY}
# endpoint arguments
args = {
"date_range": [
"2020-01-01",
"2020-12-31"
],
"interval": "monthly",
"geometry": [
-121.36322,
38.87626
],
"model": "Ensemble",
"variable": "ET",
"reference_et": "gridMET",
"units": "mm",
"file_format": "JSON"
}
# query the api
resp = requests.post(
headers=header,
json=args,
url="https://openet-api.org/raster/timeseries/point"
)
print(resp.json())
If you are less comfortable around a computer terminal and excel is more your pace, you may find our graphical user interface (GUI) useful. Visiting https://openet-api.org directly will take you to the public API server. When you visit the page for the first time you will need to click the
button and add your API key. The browser will remember the API key and you won't need to do this step again until your browser cache has been cleared.
Scroll down a little to the raster/timeseries/point tab and expand it. All fields will be prefilled, but you can manually change them if you like. Click the
button to run the query.
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