vant-api

RESTful API for storing and retrieving vantage weather data.

Introduction

There are two main components.

1. RESTful API - process and provide weather data
2. recorder - upload weather data

The api is an expressjs api, which manages a database and provides simple endpoints to access your weather data.

The recorder repeatedly uploads weather data to the api.

Both of them together form a robust platform!

Usage

Running the vantage api is super easy!

import { api } from "vant-api/api";

async function main(){
    api.configure({
        units: {
            temperature: "°C",
        },
        port: 5231,
    });
    
    await api.start();
}

main();

Running the recorder is also pretty easy.

import { Recorder } from "vant-api/recorder";

async function main(){
    // Configure recorder 
    const recorder = await Recorder.create({
        path: "COM5",
        api: "http://localhost:8000/api",
        key: "your-api-key",
        ...
    });

    // Configure "/api/v1/current" update interval
    recorder.configureCurrentConditionsTask({
        interval: 1,
    });

    // Start recorder
    recorder.start();
}

main();

Read the guides to get started!

Documentation

First of all you should read the guides. After that you may get more information and read the official documentation.

Roadmap

This project is in an early stage. There is still so much to come. Currently the api only stores the current weather conditions. This will change.

Planned endpoints

Currently following endpoints are planned. This may change.

/highs-and-lows/:interval

This route will return interesting records. Using the :interval you will be able to choose different periods. Possible values will be: hour, day, week, month, year. By default it will assume that you are interested in the current hour, day, etc. This is changeable by passing a time query parameter. E.g. /highs-and-lows/week?time=2023/34 (this requests the highs and lows of the 34 calendar week of 2023).

{
    "success": true,
    "interval": "year",
    "data": {
        "tempOut": {
            "low": {
                "value": -12.4,
                "time": "2004-01-28"
            },
            "high": {
                "value": 39.2,
                "time": "2004-08-27"
            }
        },
        ...
    }
}

/summary/:interval

This route will return a summary of the passed interval. Possible values will be: hour, day, week, month, year.

{
    "success": true,
    "interval": "day",
    "data": {
        "rain": 7.4,
        "windDir": "W",
        "tempOut": {
            "low": {
                "value": 9.4,
                "time": "05:34"
            },
            "high": {
                "value": 14.9,
                "time": "14:22"
            }
        },
        ...
    }
}

This route will be useful for generating graphs that visualize the weather of a specified interval.