Apicast

About

Apicast acquires bee flight forecast information published by Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD).

• Development: Hiveeyes » DWD-Prognose Bienenflug
• Live API: https://apicast.hiveeyes.org/ (also on HTTP)

Setup

CLI version:

pip install apicast

HTTP API:

pip install apicast[service]

Synopsis

Display list of states and sites:

apicast beeflight stations

Display list of location slugs:

apicast beeflight stations --slugs

Acquire information for given location slug brandenburg/potsdam:

apicast beeflight forecast --station=brandenburg/potsdam

Acquire information for given location slug brandenburg/potsdam, output as table in Markdown format:

apicast beeflight forecast --station=brandenburg/potsdam --format=table-markdown

Output as table in JSON machine readable format:

apicast beeflight forecast --station=brandenburg/potsdam --format=json-machine

HTTP API

Start HTTP API service:

apicast service

Start HTTP service with dynamic code reloading:

apicast service --reload

Then navigate to:

open http://localhost:24640/

Example

apicast beeflight forecast --station=brandenburg/potsdam

[
    {
        "Datum": "Mo 01.06.",
        "morgens": "stark",
        "mittags": "intensiv",
        "abends": "stark"
    },
    {
        "Datum": "Di 02.06.",
        "morgens": "stark",
        "mittags": "intensiv",
        "abends": "intensiv"
    },
    {
        "Datum": "Mi 03.06.",
        "morgens": "intensiv",
        "mittags": "intensiv",
        "abends": "intensiv"
    }
]

Tests

make test

Content attributions

The copyright of data, particular images and pictograms are held by their respective owners, unless otherwise noted.

Data

• Source:
  • https://www.dwd.de/DE/leistungen/biene_flug/bienenflug.html
  • https://www.dwd.de/DE/fachnutzer/freizeitgaertner/1_gartenwetter/_node.html
• Documentation:
  • https://www.dwd.de/DE/fachnutzer/landwirtschaft/dokumentationen/allgemein/bienenflug_doku.html
  • https://www.dwd.de/DE/fachnutzer/landwirtschaft/dokumentationen/isabel/meinagrar_bienenflug.html
  • https://www.dwd.de/DE/klimaumwelt/ku_beratung/landwirtschaft/agrar_modelle/Bienenflug.pdf?__blob=publicationFile
• Data copyright: © Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD), Agricultural Meteorology Department

Logo picture

• Description: A bee swarm on an oak tree in Plymouth, UK
• Date: 21 June 2009
• Source: Own work
• Author: Nilfanion
• Camera location: 50° 24′ 38.3″ N, 4° 09′ 28.2″ W
• License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported
• URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bee_swarm_in_Plymouth.jpg