https://github.com/zxdawn/nmc-crawler

Download figures from National Meteorological Center, China (NMC) website
https://github.com/zxdawn/nmc-crawler

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Download figures from National Meteorological Center, China (NMC) website

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/zxdawn/nmc-crawler
• Owner: zxdawn
• License: gpl-3.0
• Created: 2019-05-19T08:20:09.000Z (over 5 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2020-02-15T06:53:09.000Z (almost 5 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-06-11T17:41:39.571Z (5 months ago)
• Topics: meteorology, nmc, weather-data
• Language: Python
• Homepage: http://www.nmc.cn/
• Size: 734 KB
• Stars: 4
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 4
• Open Issues: 2
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        
# nmc-crawler

## What is it?

Script of downloading figures from NMC website: http://www.nmc.cn/

Currently, this script supports downloading **weathercharts** and **radar** figures.

## Usage

Download or clone the repository first

```

git clone https://github.com/zxdawn/nmc-crawler.git

```

Check the help information

```

python nmc_crawler.py --help

```

```

Usage: nmc_crawler.py [OPTIONS]

  Download weathercharts and radar figures from NMC.

  Contact:

      [email protected]

Options:

  -k, --kind [radar|weatherchart|ltng]

                                  Kind of data  [required]

  -a, --area [all|region|station]

                                  Region of maps:

                                  For weatherchart and ltng,

                                  you don't

                                  need to specify this parameter.

                                  [default: region]

  -r, --resolution [medium|small]

                                  Resolution of figures  [default: medium]

  -s, --savepath TEXT             Savepath of figures  [default: ./]

  -v, --verbose INTEGER           verbose level  [default: 0]

  --help                          Show this message and exit.

```

Run the script at the background every hour:

```

nohup bash -c "while true; do python -u nmc_crawler.py -k radar; sleep 3600; done" > radar.log 2>&1 &

```

## Brief example

1. Download regional radar figures:

   ![radar_1](https://github.com/zxdawn/nmc-crawler/raw/master/examples/radar_1.gif)

2. Download radar figures of all stations:

   ![radar_2](https://github.com/zxdawn/nmc-crawler/raw/master/examples/radar_2.gif)

3. Download weathercharts:

   ![weatherchart](https://github.com/zxdawn/nmc-crawler/raw/master/examples/weatherchart.gif)

   

4. Download lightning figures

## Directory structure

```

├── radar

│   ├── region

│   │   ├── chinaall

│   │   │   └── yyyymm

│   │   │       └── mmdd

│   │   ├── dongbei

│   │   │   └── yyyymm

│   │   │       └── mmdd

│   │   ├── huabei

│   │   │   └── yyyymm

│   │   │       └── mmdd

│   │   ├── huadong

│   │   │   └── yyyymm

│   │   │       └── mmdd

│   │   ├── huanan

│   │   │   └── yyyymm

│   │   │       └── mmdd

│   │   ├── huazhong

│   │   │   └── yyyymm

│   │   │       └── mmdd

│   │   ├── xibei

│   │   │   └── yyyymm

│   │   │       └── mmdd

│   │   └── xinan

│   │       └── yyyymm

│   │           └── mmdd

│   └── station

│       ├── jiang-su

│       │   ├── chang-zhou

│       │   ├── huai-an

│       │   ├── lian-yun-gang

│       │   ├── nan-jing

│       │   ├── nan-tong

│       │   ├── tai-zhou

│       │   ├── xu-zhou

│       │   └── yan-cheng

│       ├── liao-ning

│       │   ├── chao-yang

│       │   ├── da-lian

│       │   ├── shen-yang

│       │   └── ying-kou

│       └── ....

└── weatherchart

    └── china

        └── yyyymm

            ├── cloud-h000

            ├── cloud-h100

            ├── cloud-h200

            ├── cloud-h500

            ├── cloud-h700

            ├── cloud-h850

            ├── cloud-h925

            ├── radar-h000

            ├── radar-h100

            ├── radar-h200

            ├── radar-h500

            ├── radar-h700

            ├── radar-h850

            ├── radar-h925

            ├── weatherchart-h000

            ├── weatherchart-h100

            ├── weatherchart-h200

            ├── weatherchart-h500

            ├── weatherchart-h700

            ├── weatherchart-h850

            └── weatherchart-h925

```