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Platform API endpoint with unified authentication and usage tracking.

Production API
Platform API endpoint
https://api.sandbase.ai/v1/api/open-meteo/air-quality
Authorization header
Authorization: Bearer $SANDBASE_API_KEY
# The quoted heredoc keeps Unicode and shell metacharacters unchanged.
result=$(curl --fail-with-body --silent \
  -X POST "https://api.sandbase.ai/v1/api/open-meteo/air-quality" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SANDBASE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --data-binary @- <<'SANDBASE_JSON'
{
  "hourly": "pm10,pm2_5",
  "current": "european_aqi,pm2_5",
  "domains": "auto",
  "end_date": "2024-01-07",
  "latitude": "52.52",
  "timezone": "Europe/Berlin",
  "longitude": "13.41",
  "past_days": 0,
  "start_date": "2024-01-01",
  "timeformat": "iso8601",
  "forecast_days": 1,
  "cell_selection": "nearest"
}
SANDBASE_JSON
)
printf '%s\n' "$result"

2. Authentication

Set your SandBase API key in your server environment. Requests use Bearer authentication.

API key environment variable
export SANDBASE_API_KEY="YOUR_API_KEY"

Keep your key on the server. Do not expose it in browser code.

3. Parameters

latitudestringrequired

WGS84 latitude of the location. Multiple coordinates can be comma-separated.

longitudestringrequired

WGS84 longitude of the location (negative for the Americas). Multiple coordinates can be comma-separated.

cell_selectionstring

Grid-cell preference for the coordinate. Default `nearest`.

Default: "nearest"

Possible values: land, sea, nearest

currentstring

Comma-separated list of current-condition variables to return. Same variable set as `hourly`.

domainsstring

Model domain. Default `auto`.

Default: "auto"

Possible values: auto, cams_europe, cams_global

end_datestring

End of the interval, `yyyy-mm-dd` (ISO 8601).

forecast_daysinteger

Number of forecast days to return (0-7). Default 5.

Default: 5

forecast_hoursinteger

Limit forecast to a given number of hours.

hourlystring

Comma-separated list of hourly variables to return. Common values: `pm10`, `pm2_5`, `carbon_monoxide`, `nitrogen_dioxide`, `sulphur_dioxide`, `ozone`, `aerosol_optical_depth`, `dust`, `uv_index`, `ammonia`, `european_aqi`, `us_aqi`, and pollen (`alder_pollen`, `birch_pollen`, `grass_pollen`, `mugwor

past_daysinteger

Number of past days to include (0-92). Default 0.

Default: 0

past_hoursinteger

Include a given number of past hours.

start_datestring

Start of the interval, `yyyy-mm-dd` (ISO 8601).

timeformatstring

Time output format. Default `iso8601`.

Default: "iso8601"

Possible values: iso8601, unixtime

timezonestring

IANA time zone name (e.g. `Europe/Berlin`) or `auto` to resolve from coordinates. Defaults to `GMT`.

4. Response

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