Open-Meteo Weather Scraper

Open-Meteo Weather Scraper

Look up current weather or a multi-day forecast for any place on Earth — by name or by coordinates — using the free Open-Meteo API. No API key, no login, no sign-up.

Give it a list of place names (["Berlin", "Tokyo", "New York"]) and it geocodes each to its top match, then returns clean, structured weather rows with a human-readable description (e.g. Partly cloudy, Slight rain, Thunderstorm) instead of a raw WMO code.

Modes

• current — current conditions per place: temperature, feels-like, humidity, precipitation, wind, weather text.
• forecast — one row per day (up to Forecast days, max 16): daily high/low, precipitation total, max wind, weather text.
• geocode — just resolve place names to coordinates + metadata (country, region, timezone, population). No weather call.

What you get per row

geocode: place, name, latitude, longitude, country, admin1 (region/state), timezone, population.

current: place, latitude, longitude, time, temperature, apparentTemperature, humidity, precipitation, windSpeed, weatherCode, weather (text), timezone.

forecast (one row per day): place, latitude, longitude, date, tempMax, tempMin, precipitationSum, windSpeedMax, weatherCode, weather (text).

Units are Open-Meteo defaults: temperatures in °C, wind in km/h, precipitation in mm.

Input

You must provide either places or both latitude and longitude.

Output

One dataset row per place (geocode/current) or per day (forecast). Pricing is pay-per-result: you are only charged for genuine result rows (ok: true). Rows we couldn't deliver are never charged — this includes:

• empty/invalid input (a single ok: false row with errorCode: "BAD_INPUT" — e.g. no place and no coordinates, or an unknown mode),
• a place that couldn't be geocoded / produced no data (NO_RESULTS),
• rate limits or network errors (RATE_LIMITED / NETWORK).

When some places resolve and others don't, the unresolved ones are listed under unresolved on the run log; the resolved rows are still returned and charged.

Proxy

Open-Meteo is a public, no-auth JSON API with no anti-bot, so no proxy is required and the default runs without one (saving proxy credits). Only enable Apify Proxy if you hit IP rate limits at very high volume.

Troubleshooting

• Getting a BAD_INPUT row? Provide places, or both latitude and longitude, and a valid mode.
• A place came back as NO_RESULTS? Try a more specific name (add the country, e.g. "Springfield, US"), or use direct coordinates.

Example

{ "mode": "forecast", "places": ["Paris", "Madrid"], "forecastDays": 5 }

Notes

Weather codes follow the WMO interpretation table and are mapped to short English text in the weather field; the raw number is kept in weatherCode. Data and geocoding come from Open-Meteo — please review their terms for attribution and fair-use limits at high volume.

Pricing

$0.20 per 1,000 rows ($0.0002 each), plus $0.001 each time a run starts. Flat rate — no volume tiers, no plan gates — and you are charged only for rows actually returned.

In forecast mode a row is one day, so a 7-day forecast for 10 cities is 70 rows: $0.014 plus the start fee. In current and geocode mode a row is one place.

Billing

Two charges apply: a $0.001 run-start fee each time a run begins, and $0.0002 per result row delivered. Samples, diagnostics, duplicates, blocked look-ups and no-result runs never incur the per-result fee — a run that returns nothing costs only the $0.001 start fee. No proxy is used by default, so there is no proxy line on your bill.