Meteomatics Authentication API

Obtain OAuth2 bearer tokens

OpenAPI Specification

meteomatics-authentication-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  title: Meteomatics Weather Authentication API
  description: 'The Meteomatics Weather API provides access to over 1,800 weather parameters including hyperlocal forecasts, historical data back to 1940, climate scenarios to 2100, marine conditions, and environmental variables at up to 1 km resolution globally. The API supports point, multi-location, route, and polygon queries, and returns data in JSON, CSV, XML, PNG, GeoTIFF, WebP, HTML, and NetCDF formats. Authentication is via HTTP Basic Auth or an OAuth2 bearer token.

    '
  version: '3.0'
  termsOfService: https://www.meteomatics.com/en/terms-and-conditions/
  contact:
    name: Meteomatics Support
    email: support@meteomatics.com
    url: https://www.meteomatics.com/en/contact/
  license:
    name: Commercial
    url: https://www.meteomatics.com/en/pricing/
servers:
- url: https://api.meteomatics.com
  description: Meteomatics production API
security:
- basicAuth: []
- bearerAuth: []
tags:
- name: Authentication
  description: Obtain OAuth2 bearer tokens
paths:
  /api/v1/token:
    get:
      summary: Obtain OAuth2 bearer token
      description: 'Exchange Basic Auth credentials for a short-lived JWT bearer token (valid 2 hours). Use the returned token as `?access_token=<token>` on subsequent requests or as `Authorization: Bearer <token>`.

        '
      operationId: getToken
      tags:
      - Authentication
      security:
      - basicAuth: []
      servers:
      - url: https://login.meteomatics.com
        description: Meteomatics login server
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Bearer token issued successfully
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/TokenResponse'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
components:
  schemas:
    TokenResponse:
      type: object
      description: OAuth2 bearer token response.
      properties:
        access_token:
          type: string
          description: JWT bearer token, valid for 2 hours.
          example: eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9...
        token_type:
          type: string
          example: bearer
        expires_in:
          type: integer
          description: Token lifetime in seconds (7200 = 2 hours).
          example: 7200
    ErrorResponse:
      type: object
      description: Standard error envelope.
      properties:
        status:
          type: string
          example: ERROR
        message:
          type: string
          description: Human-readable error description.
          example: 'Invalid parameter: t_999m:C'
  responses:
    Unauthorized:
      description: Authentication credentials are missing or invalid.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
  securitySchemes:
    basicAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: basic
      description: HTTP Basic Authentication using Meteomatics account credentials.
    bearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      bearerFormat: JWT
      description: 'JWT bearer token obtained from `https://login.meteomatics.com/api/v1/token`. May also be supplied as the `access_token` query parameter.

        '
externalDocs:
  description: Full API documentation
  url: https://www.meteomatics.com/en/api/