SouthendOnSea.city

aid: southendonsea
name: SouthendOnSea.city
description: 'SouthendOnSea.city is an independent local information and community-participation platform for Southend-on-Sea,
  Essex, covering local news, community propositions and public voting, city information and the Southend Science Exhibition.
  Its public data API — Southend Now — serves unauthenticated, source-linked current and historical observations for the area:
  weather, designated bathing waters, marine conditions, modelled air quality and flood alerts. Three operations return the
  current snapshot, a JSON history and a CSV history, refreshed on a 1,800-second interval, with source licensing and attribution
  preserved in the payload. The platform is independent and unofficial and states plainly that it is not operated by Southend-on-Sea
  City Council, Essex Police or any election authority.'
type: Index
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/southendonsea/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: open
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: true
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Open access
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-13'
  method: derived
created: '2026-08-23'
image: https://southendonsea.city/southend-city-email-brand.png
modified: '2026-10-06'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
tags:
- Open Data
- Southend-on-Sea
- Weather
- Environment
- local data
tags_raw:
- open data
- Southend-on-Sea
- weather
- environment
- local data
apis:
- aid: southendonsea:southendonsea-southend-now-api
  name: SouthendOnSea.city Southend Now API
  description: Current and archived source-linked city observations
  humanURL: https://southendonsea.city/data/reuse
  image: https://southendonsea.city/southend-city-email-brand.png
  tags:
  - Southend Now
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/southendonsea-southend-now-api-openapi.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://southendonsea.city/openapi.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://southendonsea.city/data/reuse
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/southendonsea-now-example.json
  - type: JSON
    url: https://southendonsea.city/api/southend-now
  - type: CSV
    url: https://southendonsea.city/api/southend-now/history.csv
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/southendonsea-southend-now-api-overlay.yaml
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/southendonsea-mcp.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/southendonsea-problem-types.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/southendonsea-data-model.yml
common:
- url: https://southendonsea.city/feed.xml
  type: BlogRSS
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/southendonsea-well-known.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/southendonsea-conformance.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/southendonsea-lifecycle.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/southendonsea-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/southendonsea-conventions.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/southendonsea-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/southendonsea-rate-limits.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: Support
  url: https://southendonsea.city/contact
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/southendonsea-domain-security.yml
- type: APIsJSON
  url: https://southendonsea.city/.well-known/apis.json
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/southendonsea-llms.txt
- type: Website
  url: https://southendonsea.city
- type: Documentation
  url: https://southendonsea.city/data/reuse
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://southendonsea.city/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://southendonsea.city/privacy
- type: UsageTerms
  url: terms/southendonsea-terms-of-service.yml
- type: DataProcessing
  url: privacy/southendonsea-privacy-policy.yml
- type: Eligibility
  url: eligibility/southendonsea-eligibility.yml
- type: AIPreferences
  url: ai-preferences/southendonsea-ai-preferences.yml
maintainers:
- FN: SouthendOnSea.city
  email: hello@southendonsea.city
  url: https://southendonsea.city
x-provenance:
  added: '2026-08-23'
  method: searched
  source: https://southendonsea.city/.well-known/apis.json
  note: 'Submitted via apis.io/add on 2026-08-23 from hello@southendonsea.city and rated 71 (exemplar) by the gate — the highest-rated
    submission seen in this sweep, and it holds up. Unusually, the submitted APIs.json URL is CORRECT. It resolves at both
    /.well-known/apis.json and /apis.json, an invented control path returns a real 404, and every property it declares was
    fetched and confirmed. The OpenAPI is served as application/vnd.oai.openapi+json;version=3.0 — the correct media type,
    which almost no provider sets. The API was exercised anonymously: GET /api/southend-now returned live observations with
    real beach records, a licence note and a generatedAt timestamp, and the CSV history endpoint returned text/csv. No key,
    no signup. ONE THING RECORDED CAREFULLY. This is NOT a council or government API and must not be presented as one. The
    operator states on its own llms.txt that it is "independent and unofficial, and is not operated by Southend-on-Sea City
    Council, Essex Police or an election authority", and that its articles reorganise official Essex Police and council updates.
    The data is source-linked to official publishers; the platform is a third party republishing it.'
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-09-03'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 15
  pass: local-v2