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You need to download ecmwf-api-client-perl.tgz, extract its content and to a directory pointed by the environment variable PERL5LIB. This code relies on the JSON perl module, as well as libwww-perl and Crypt::SSLeay.
Installing your API key
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The keys from the old data server are not valid for this new service. |
To access ECMWF you will need an API key. For that you first need to login at https://apps.ecmwf.int/auth/login/ and then retrieve you key at https://api.ecmwf.int/v1/key/. For this, you will need to have an account on ECMWF web site. Copy the information in this page and paste it in the file $HOME/.ecmwfapirc.
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