This is a web service designed to aggregate flow and metadata delivered in SOS format for New Zealand rivers.
All requests are POST requests with header "Content-Type:application/json" and body sent as raw JSON.
- Get all available features that have flow and/or stage_height measurments
{
"action": "get_features",
"filters": ["flow", "stage_height"],
}- Request flow information for gauge with id = 15341
{
"action": "get_flows",
"id": ["15341"]
}Set up a lightsail instance and use the launch_script file included in this repository.
Under the networking tab enable HTTPS traffic.
Get a SSL certificate using:
sudo certbot --standalone -d openriverdata.com -d www.openriverdata.com certonly
This will put the certificates in the right place.
Add the files in the server_files directory into the $HOME directory of the lightsail instance. Once the container has built, run the update_script.sh to pull the container and start it within the nginx container.