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February 14, 2017 16:36
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what observatory data do we have in the BGS WDC web app?. front end at http://wdc.bgs.ac.uk/dataportal/
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| import requests | |
| url_base = r'http://app.geomag.bgs.ac.uk/wdc/' | |
| station_resource = 'stations' | |
| stations_url = url_base + station_resource | |
| response = requests.get(stations_url) | |
| # dictionary with IAGA codes as primary keys | |
| stations = response.json() | |
| station = 'ESK' | |
| lat = 'latitude' | |
| lon = 'longitude' | |
| elev = 'elevation' | |
| cadence = 'hour' | |
| assert station in stations.keys() | |
| stn_data = stations.get(station) | |
| print('{}: lat {}, lon {}, elev {}'.format( | |
| station, | |
| stn_data.get(lat), | |
| stn_data.get(lon), | |
| stn_data.get(elev) | |
| )) | |
| assert cadence in stn_data.get('dataAvailability'), \ | |
| '{}-ly data exist in WDC for {}'.format(cadence, station) |
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