River Levels Application Programming Interface (API) (UK Open Government Data)
UK public-sector open dataset and API ("River Levels Application Programming Interface (API)") registered on data.gov.uk: This dataset covers monitoring data that is updated on our systems on a minimum of a daily update cycle. This is increased during times of flooding etc. Measurements of the height (m) of water in a river, lake or coastal site taken using automatic field devices, are given usually every 15 minutes. Information is availa
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Registered on data.gov.uk under the UK Open Government Licence (OGL); public endpoint without central API key requirement.
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Free open government data under the UK Open Government Licence (OGL v3.0).
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Limitations & terms
Geographic coverage applies to the United Kingdom (or England/Scotland/Wales/Northern Ireland depending on the publishing body).
Commercial use: Allowed per source
No terms source recorded; permission has not been established.
Provenance & attributes
Kind: api · HTTPS: unknown · CORS: unknown
Sources: profiles
Categories: Government ·
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