Global Temperature API

Description

Using this API you can retrieve monthly temperature averages by country name. The measurements range from around 1750 at the earliest to 2013.

Country Object

Features

Features planned during development:

• Ability to retrieve any country and easily access its temperature data by month
• Ability to add new data
• Ability to delete data

Technologies Used

• MongoDB & Mongoose
• Express
• Node.js

Installation

1. Clone the library to your computer
2. Use npm install to install the dependencies
3. Run the seed file at global-temperature-api/lib/db/seeds/country.js
4. From the lib/ directory run a local server with nodemon
5. Open http://localhost:4000/country to bring up the index

Use

The API is currently deployed here. The site has the following routes:

Where path = http://global-temperature-api.herokuapp.com

• path/country: the index will return a list of all countries in the API with the number of month values within their months array

• path/country/:name: this path can be used to access any one country by name. This will return the full object including the full months array.

Data Source

The data is retrieved from Berkeley Earth an organization that has systematically re-done climate research in order to disprove climate change skeptists' theories on biases in the data. Due to the open nature of their work they release all of their data to the public on their data page. This is where all of the data sets used in this API are retrieved from.

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome. For any bigger changes please submit an issue.

Planned Changes

• Add temperature data by city, state, and major city
• Add more routes to allow searches by dates and more searchability of the data