DISCLAIMER: This version of Frost is still work in progress.
MET Norway does not guarantee that the service will always behave 100% according to documentation or expectations.
Authentication has been turned on as of late May 2023.
URL examples
frost v1 URL examples
To add more parameters to your URL request, see the list of parameter definitions
CSV: If you want the observation data output in the CSV format (not in JSON), you can do that by adding the request parameters hdrcsv and obscsv.
- Get the latest data for the Blindern station: https://frost-beta.met.no/api/v1/obs/met.no/filter/get?incobs=true&time=latest&elementids=air_temperature&stationids=18700
- Get the metadata (without observations) for the 5 stations within 5km of Oslo: https://frost-beta.met.no/api/v1/obs/met.no/filter/get?incobs=false&nearest={"maxdist":5,"maxcount":5,"points":[{"lon":10.75,"lat":59.91}]}
- Get a list of stations (metadata, without observations) in the county of Vestland measuring wind between 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC and 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC: https://frost-beta.met.no/api/v1/obs/met.no/filter/get?incobs=false&time=2021-01-01T00:00:00Z%2F2022-01-01T00:00:00Z&elementids=wind%2A&stationcounties=vestland
- Get all the wind measurements (using * as wildcard) made in the municipality of Oslo in the time interval from 2022-12-19 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-12-19 03:00:00 UTC: https://frost-beta.met.no/api/v1/obs/met.no/filter/get?incobs=true&time=2022-12-19T00:00:00Z%2F2022-12-19T03:00:00Z&elementids=wind*&stationmunicipalities=oslo
- Get a list of stations (metadata, without observations) in the county of Vestland measuring air temperature at 10m above the ground between 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC and 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC: https://frost-beta.met.no/api/v1/obs/met.no/filter/get?incobs=false&time=2021-01-01T00:00:00Z%2F2022-01-01T00:00:00Z&elementids=air_temp%2A&levels=10&stationcounties=vestland
havvarsel-frost URL examples
For those coming here from havvarsel-frost:
- Get the metadata (without observations) for water temperatures measured by buoys: https://havvarsel-frost.met.no/api/v1/obs/badevann/get?incobs=false&time=latest¶meters=temperature