https://github.com/timoschd/Dockerized-Plumber-API

Containerized Plumber REST API which offers data from a containerized Cron job on a Google Big Query data source within a container network.
https://github.com/timoschd/Dockerized-Plumber-API

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Containerized Plumber REST API which offers data from a containerized Cron job on a Google Big Query data source within a container network.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/timoschd/Dockerized-Plumber-API
• Owner: timoschd
• Created: 2019-12-14T15:11:14.000Z (almost 6 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2020-04-16T17:05:54.000Z (over 5 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-07-19T12:08:58.748Z (3 months ago)
• Language: R
• Size: 73.2 KB
• Stars: 8
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 2
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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README

          
This project is described in detail in the corresponding blog post series:

**Part I:** https://medium.com/analytics-vidhya/google-big-query-with-r-875facef7844 


**Part II:** https://medium.com/analytics-vidhya/live-data-extraction-with-cron-and-r-f29324bf153e 


**Part III:** https://medium.com/analytics-vidhya/easy-api-building-for-data-scientists-with-r-673b381c4ae1

# Dockerized Plumber API

These REST APIs provide a way for platform/language independent access to the public Google Big Query dataset  `bigquery-public-data:openaq.global_air_quality` of air pollution measured soley at Indian measurement points. The dataset is updated daily, however older data seem to get deleted. To access this data a Cron job fetches new data in 12 hour intervals from Google through the R script `get_data_big_query.R` and adds new rows to the saved dataset. The data can be requested fully or aggregated on date intervals through the APIs provided in the Rscript `API.R`. The data import via Cron and the APIs are run seperately in two Docker containers with a shared volume for the data as specified in the `docker-compose.yml`.

 The APIs for Cloud Storage and Big Query have to be activated first for the used Google account at https://console.cloud.google.com/ and a Service Account Token (here not included, should go in cron/src/) needs to be generated and downloaded for authentification as described in section "Service account token" at https://gargle.r-lib.org/articles/get-api-credentials.html. For information about the r package `bigrquery`  see https://github.com/r-dbi/bigrquery. 

## API Documentation:  

- Get complete data from all Indian measurement points   

      POST */all

      NO parameters

      content-type: application/json 

- Get all Indian measurement locations 

       POST */locations

      NO parameters

      content-type: application/json  

- Get median airquality metrics of the current date with date horizon for averaging at measurement location.

      POST */summed_quality_now?measurment_location=&date=

      measurment_location: Takes all values from the Indian measurement locations, defaults to all

      date: The daterange, takes either today, week, month, quarter, year, defaults to today

      content-type: application/json   

      

- Get median air quality for all dates. The timerange for averaging and the measurement location can be set. 

      POST */summed_quality?measurment_location=&date=

      measurment_location: Takes all values from the Indian measurement locations, defaults to all

      date: The daterange, takes either day, week, month, quarter, year, defaults to day

      content-type: application/json  

- Plot a test histogram

      GET */plot

      NO parameters

      content-type: application/json