hydrodownloadR: Hydrologic Station Catalogs and Time Series from Public APIs

Provides a unified, extensible interface to discover hydrologic stations and download daily time series (e.g., water discharge, water level, water temperature, and several other water quality parameter) from national and regional public APIs. Includes a provider registry, S3 generics 'stations' and 'timeseries', licensing metadata, date-range and 'complete history' modes, rate limiting and retries, optional authentication via environment variables, tidy outputs, UTF-8 to ASCII transliteration, and WGS84 coordinates. Designed for reproducible workflows and straightforward addition of new providers. Background and use cases are described in Farber et al. (2025) <doi:10.5194/essd-17-4613-2025> and Farber et al. (2023) <doi:10.57757/IUGG23-2838>.

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Package details

AuthorHenning Plessow [aut, cre], Global Runoff Data Centre [ctb]
MaintainerHenning Plessow <h.plessow@googlemail.com>
LicenseMIT + file LICENSE
Version0.1.3
URL https://bafg-bund.github.io/hydrodownloadR/ https://github.com/bafg-bund/hydrodownloadR
Package repositoryView on CRAN
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install.packages("hydrodownloadR")

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hydrodownloadR documentation built on Feb. 25, 2026, 5:08 p.m.