Weather & Tide

Base route: /api/weather

📚 Read more about Weather and Tide in Back-end Server Architecture Weather & Tide documentation.

Table of contents

1. /getWeather
   1. Response Schema
   2. Sample Success Response
   3. Fail Response
2. /getTide
   1. Response Schema
   2. Sample Success Response
   3. Fail Response

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/getWeather

Description	Get today’s weather and the upcoming weather 3-day weather forecast.
HTTP Verb	GET
Success Codes	200
Failure Codes	500 server error
Request Schema	Endpoint does not expect a request body or parameters.
Sample Request	Endpoint does not expect a request body or parameters.

Response Schema

{
    currWeather: string;
    temp: number;
    iconURL: string;
    windSpeed: number;
    windDir: string;
    windDeg: number;
    windPressure: number;
    forecast: {
            weekday: string;
            iconURL: string;
            high: number;
            low: number;
              }[];
}

Sample Success Response

{
    "message": "Sucessfully fetched weather data.",
    "data": {
        "currWeather": "Partly cloudy",
        "temp": 12,
        "iconURL": "//cdn.weatherapi.com/weather/64x64/day/116.png",
        "windSpeed": 15.1,
        "windDir": "E",
        "windDeg": 100,
        "windPressure": 1023,
        "forecast": [
            {
                "weekday": "Wednesday",
                "iconURL": "//cdn.weatherapi.com/weather/64x64/day/176.png",
                "high": 12,
                "low": 8.5
            },
            {
                "weekday": "Thursday",
                "iconURL": "//cdn.weatherapi.com/weather/64x64/day/113.png",
                "high": 13.4,
                "low": 8.3
            },
            {
                "weekday": "Friday",
                "iconURL": "//cdn.weatherapi.com/weather/64x64/day/113.png",
                "high": 18.6,
                "low": 10.2
            }
        ]
    }
}

Fail Response

{ message: 'There was a problem fetching the weather data.' }

/getTide

Description	Get today’s tidal high and low predictions.
HTTP Verb	GET
Success Codes	200
Failure Codes	500 server error
Request Schema	Endpoint does not expect a request body or parameters.
Sample Request	Endpoint does not expect a request body or parameters.

Response Schema

{
    high: {
        height: number;
        time: string;
        type: string;
          }[];
    low: {
        height: number;
        time: string;
        type: string;
          }[];
    allData: {
        height: number;
        time: string;
             }[];
};

Sample Success Response

{
    "message": "Sucessfully fetched tide data.",
    "data": {
        "high": [
            {
                "height": 0.6293349237164408,
                "time": "2023-04-26T01:13:00+00:00",
                "type": "high"
            },
            {
                "height": 0.9620231448684503,
                "time": "2023-04-26T14:15:00+00:00",
                "type": "high"
            }
        ],
        "low": [
            {
                "height": -0.9752238359409716,
                "time": "2023-04-26T07:43:00+00:00",
                "type": "low"
            },
            {
                "height": -0.35151374311279826,
                "time": "2023-04-26T20:57:00+00:00",
                "type": "low"
            }
        ],
        "allData": [
            {
                "height": 0.46,
                "time": "2023-04-26T00:00:00+00:00"
            },
            {
                "height": 0.62,
                "time": "2023-04-26T01:00:00+00:00"
            },
            {
                "height": 0.56,
                "time": "2023-04-26T02:00:00+00:00"
            },
            ...
        ]
    }
}

Fail Response

💡 Generally, this is caused by going over the free rate limit.

{ message: 'There was a problem fetching the tide data.' }