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This method allows users to download ECMWF public datasets in a programmatic way.

  1. Install ECMWF key
  2. Install client libraries
  3. Check data availability
  4. Choose dataset
  5. Script examples

  6. Request syntax

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  1. If you don't have an account, please self register at https://apps.ecmwf.int/registration/ and then go to the steps below.

  2. Login https://apps.ecmwf.int/auth/login/

  3. Retrieve you key at https://api.ecmwf.int/v1/key/

    Info

    Note that the key expires in 1 year. You will receive an email to the registered email address 1 month before the expiration date with the renewal instructions. To check the expiry date of your current key log into www.ecmwf.int, then click here.


  4. Copy the information in this page and paste it in the file $HOME/.ecmwfapirc (Unix/Linux) or %USERPROFILE%\.ecmwfapirc (Windows: usually in C:\Users\<USERNAME>\.ecmwfapirc ; see how to create a file with a leading dot)

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titlecontents of $HOME/.ecmwfapirc (Unix/Linux) or %USERPROFILE%\.ecmwfapirc (Windows)
{
    "url"   : "https://api.ecmwf.int/v1",
    "key"   : "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX",
    "email" : "john.smith@example.com"
}


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This version of the library provides support for both Python 2.7.x and Python 3.

For languages other than Python please see Web-API Downloads

You can install the ecmwfapi python library by running on Unix/Linux:

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sudo pip install https://software.ecmwf.int/wiki/download/attachments/56664858/ecmwf-api-client-python.tgz

or on Windows:

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If you cannot run the sudo or pip commands, just download the ecmwf-api-client-python.tgz. Extract its content and copy the module ecmwfapi to a directory pointed by the environment variable PYTHONPATH. Alternatively you can use the --user option of pip to install it in $HOME/.local/lib :

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