API Access to ASU CAS/SPS Solar flare forecast

Version 3.7
Released on 2023-07-06

Introduction

This product can also be used via a Web API (application programming interface) for programmatically accessing the data by requesting specific URL-encoded parameters. The list of mandatory and optional variables for this specific product are included in tables 1 and 2 below:

Table 1: Mandatory parameters for API access to SPS forecast.

Table 2: Optional parameters that can be set to refine the query.

Access to the latest data

To access the latest data, the "component" parameter in the API URL should be set to "latest" (component=latest). The URL is as follows: https://swesnet.asu.cas.cz/prod/API/index.php?component=latest&pc=S501&psc=a
returns the latest ASU CAS flare forecast in XML format.

Access to the archived data

To access the archived data, the "component" parameter in the API URL should be set to "archive" (component=archive). The URL is as follows: https://swesnet.asu.cas.cz/prod/API/index.php?component=archive&pc=S501&psc=a
returns the archived solar flare forecasts in XML.

In order to select a specific time range, the two parameters "dts_start" and "dts_end" need to be added, using the format yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ssZ
For example, the URL: https://swesnet.asu.cas.cz/prod/API/index.php?component=archive&pc=S501&psc=a&dts_start=2022-12-01T00:00:00Z&dts_end=2022-12-15T23:59:59Z returns an XML structure containing a list of all of the forecasts available from 01-15 December 2022.

The XML output format is widely used and has been developed in a collaboration with CCMC (Community Coordinated Modelling Centre, NASA).

Limitation

The archive is queryable back to January 2022.