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MyRadar API Weather Forecasting Suite
API documentation and tutorials designed to jump start your weather application development needs.
18 guides · Updated October 13, 2026
Quick Start
import requests
MYRADAR_API_KEY = "YOUR_KEY"
headers = {"Subscription-Key": MYRADAR_API_KEY}
url = "https://api.myradar.dev/v1/forecast/35.47,-97.52"
forecast = requests.get(url, headers=headers).json()
print(forecast["currently"]["summary"], forecast["currently"]["temperature"])
print(forecast["minutely"]["summary"]) # the next hour, minute by minuteTutorials
Tutorials and Walk Throughs
9 guides
Python
Get a forecast and plot the next hour of rain
Call the forecast endpoint for any location, then chart its minute-by-minute nowcast to see exactly when rain starts and stops.
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Python
Download weather layers as images and data
List the available weather layers, then get radar precipitation rate as a ready-to-display PNG and model wind speed as a NetCDF file of raw values.
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HTML · Shell
Make a weather animation with gifbox
Turn any weather layer into an animated GIF over a labeled base map with a single URL. No code: open it in a browser, put it on a page, or download it.
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Python
Make a point request and display a plot
The goal of this tutorial is to demonstrate querying two lat/lon points for the current weather forecast, then display a plot of the data. The following python script will make a…
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Python
Get a route forecast and make a plot
This tutorial will demonstrate how to make a route based forecast request and plot it on the screen. A point forecast is data for one point going into the future, each geographic…
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Python
Make a Plot of Historical Data
This example will pull a chunk of historical data for two points as a netcdf file, open it with xarray and plot the snod and wspd variables using pandas and seaborn. The goal of…
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Python
Build a Power Prediction Model
Using power production data from Texas wind farms (http://www.ercot.com/gridinfo/load/load_hist/), lookup historical wind speed data and train a power prediction model. This…
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Python
Get a route from points
A route is most simply a list of [lat, lon, time]. The /point endpoint can be used to query a route using a JSON array of [lat,lon,time] arrays where the time value in the array is…
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Python
Get a time table for a route
A time table is a route forecast for several different departure times
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Data Dictionaries and Reference
4 topicsEndpoints
Points
The "points" endpoint can be used for getting a single forecast cycle for one or more points. For every point that is requested, you will receive a time series…
Endpoints
Routes
The "routes" endpoint will perform a driving directions lookup between an origin and destination then provide a single time series that represents the weather…
Endpoints
Historical Data
The 'histdata' endpoint builds a continuous time series of data for one or more points between a begin time and end time. This endpoint accepts the following…
Endpoints
Reference
The 1d time series data dictionary is as follows:
Web SDK

Shell · TypeScript
MyRadar Web SDK overview
Add MyRadar's animated radar, warnings, lightning, hurricanes and wind to any Mapbox GL JS map, with ready-made playback and layer controls.
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HTML
Embed a weather map
Put a live, animated MyRadar weather map on any web page with one line of HTML, no code required.
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Shell · HTML
Embed a forecast widget
Add a daily or hourly MyRadar forecast to any web page with one iframe, using an embed key that keeps your API key private.
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Shell · TypeScript
Build a flight tracker
Build a flight tracker on a MyRadar weather map: search for a flight, follow it over radar and weather overlays, and show its route, progress and landing time.
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iOS SDK

Swift
MyRadar iOS SDK overview
Put MyRadar's live weather map in your iOS app: animated radar, alerts, lightning, hurricanes and wind in one SwiftUI view.
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Shell · Swift
Build a flight tracker
Search live flights and follow them over animated radar in a one-screen SwiftUI app built with the iOS SDK.
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Android SDK

Kotlin
MyRadar Android SDK overview
Put MyRadar's live weather map in your Android app: animated radar, alerts, lightning, hurricanes and wind in one Compose map or Android view.
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Shell · Properties · Kotlin
Build a flight tracker
Search live flights and follow them over animated radar in a one-screen Jetpack Compose app built with the Android SDK.
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