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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/flood
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/flood" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SANDBASE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --data-binary @- <<'SANDBASE_JSON'
{
  "daily": "river_discharge",
  "models": "seamless_v4",
  "end_date": "2024-01-07",
  "ensemble": false,
  "latitude": "52.52",
  "longitude": "13.41",
  "past_days": 0,
  "start_date": "2024-01-01",
  "timeformat": "iso8601",
  "forecast_days": 7,
  "cell_selection": "nearest"
}
SANDBASE_JSON
)
printf '%s\n' "$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

dailystring

Comma-separated list of daily aggregation variables to return. Requires `timezone`. Common values: `river_discharge`, `river_discharge_mean`, `river_discharge_median`, `river_discharge_max`, `river_discharge_min`, `river_discharge_p25`, `river_discharge_p75`.

end_datestring

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

ensembleboolean

Return all ensemble members instead of the aggregate. Default `false`.

Default: false

forecast_daysinteger

Number of forecast days to return (0-210). Default 92.

Default: 92

modelsstring

Comma-separated GloFAS models. Default best match.

past_daysinteger

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

Default: 0

start_datestring

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

timeformatstring

Time output format. Default `iso8601`.

Default: "iso8601"

Possible values: iso8601, unixtime

4. Response

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