# bom-stat
This is a dead simple api to fetch a range of statistics, recent weather observations and climate data from the Australian Data Archive for Meteorology, a database which holds weather observations dating back to the mid 1800s.
It provide same functionality of Climate Data Online (CDO).
Provide station number and it will return all the historical data, rainfall, minimum, or maximum temperature.
Installation
npm install bom-scraper --save
Usage
const { getHistoricalData } = require('bom-stat')
const params = {
station: '086338',
type: 'monthly',
about: 'rainfall'
}
getHistoricalData(params, function (err, data) {
console.log(data)
})
Return
[
{
station: '086338', // Station Number
year: '2013',
data: {
annual: '374.4',
months: [64.4, 54.2, ...] // 12 elements, each represents a month, Jan, Feb, ...
}
},
...
]
Params
All the params are similar to the inputs in the Climate Data Online system.
station
Type: String
Required: true
Example: '086338'
A unique 6-digits number represent a station. You could get this by lat/lon according to the Observations List from BOM.
type
Type: String
Required: true
Value: 'daily' | 'monthly'
Default: 'monthly'
The type of data.
about
Type: String
Required: true
Value: 'rainfall' | 'mintemperature' | 'maxtemperature'
The type of data.
year
Type: Number
Value: Number | null
Only use for daily data. Set it to null for all years of data.