Weather Feeds

Gary Beardsley · 2023-11-06T16:26:42+00:00

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Gary Beardsley

Hi All,

Has someone successfully connected and ingested weather data to Board via an API? If so how did you do so?

Thanks in advance

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Samson Sunny

Hi Gary,

You can use the REST API call procedure action that can directly connect to an external API endpoint. There are two steps involved here:-

Create a Data Source connection that will handle the authentication to the API endpoint. This is configured in the system administration
Once the authentication is configured, you need to create a procedure and add the REST API call procedure action to configure the rest of the settings, such as the API path, HTTP method, parameters etc.

You can find in detailed information on the REST API call in our Board Manual
https://www.boardmanual.com/2023/summer/release-notes/board-2023-spring-release-release-notes/release-notes/main-features/rest-api-call-procedure-step.htm

Do reach out to the Level 3 support team via https://support.board.com if you need help configuring the same.

Thanks,
Samson.

Samson Sunny

Hi Gary,

Below is an example configuration to an open-source weather API

Create a Data Source connection that will handle the authentication to the API endpoint

You can choose to add the API base url here or specify the API endpoint directly in the REST API call procedure step.

Create a procedure and add the REST API call step

You can add the rest of the API endpoint in the API path

You can either include the additional parameters in the API path or the parameters section as shown below.

Finally specify the path where the output should be saved. This file then can be loaded into Board via the Data Reader.

Thanks,
Samson.

Crystal Zhao

I haven't personally used this one, but I have heard good things about Accuweather's API. Here's a link to the guide to set it all up. The information Samson provided will show you where in Board to put the appropriate links. https://developer.accuweather.com/apis

Gary Beardsley

Great! Thanks a lot both

Gary Beardsley

Great! Thanks a lot both