jack-davison
commented
1 year ago Hi @jmclaren-17,
There are a few end points to access AURN data.
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The one you're aware of -
importAURN()et al., which reads .RData objects from UK-AIR. If you have a look at the source code in https://github.com/davidcarslaw/openair/blob/master/R/importUKAQ-utils.R and https://github.com/davidcarslaw/openair/blob/master/R/importUKAQ.R you can see the URLs for these. -
There is the Data Selector Tool which is very manual and probably not what you're after.
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There are flat CSV files for the AURN sites (e.g., https://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/data/flat_files?site_id=MY1 for Marylebone Road).
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There is the Sensor Observation Service (https://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/data/about_sos) and Atom Download Service (https://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/data/atom-dls/) if you're happy working in XML.
I'm not sure which language you'd prefer to use, but as I know Python is popular there is a PyAURN library (https://pypi.org/project/pyaurn/) which accesses the RData objects. This is currently unaffiliated with the openair R package so any questions would have to go to its authors.
Hope this helps!
Jack
I have been looking at how to download R data files using the importAURN call. I was wondering if there was any other formats available than .RData files when accessing. Perhaps there is some additional endpoints available through API access?