DEVTESTS_normals_1991.R

In steffilazerte/weathercan: Download Weather Data from Environment and Climate Change Canada

httr::GET(url = "https://climate.weather.gc.ca/climate_normals/station_inventory_e.html?yr=1991") |>
  httr::content("text") |>
  readr::read_csv()


getOption("weathercan.urls.normals")


# FOLLOWING WORKS for normals... but how do we get stnID?
q <- list(lang = "e", prov = "MB", yr = "1991",
          stnname = "BRANDON",
          stnID = "219000000", climateID = "",
          submit_thread = "Download")

get_check(url = "https://climate.weather.gc.ca/climate_normals/bulk_data_e.html",
          query = q,
          task = "access climate normals") |>
  httr::content("text") |>
  readr::read_csv()


# FOLLOWING WORKS for composite thread data... but how do we get stnID?
q <- list(lang = "e", prov = "MB", yr = "1991",
          stnname = "BRANDON",
          stnID = "219000000", climateID = "",
          submit_thread = "Download",
          metathread = "metadata",
          metathread = "threaddata")


get_check(url = "https://climate.weather.gc.ca/climate_normals/thread_bulk_data_e.html",
          query = q,
          task = "access climate normals", httr::write_disk("temp.zip", overwrite = TRUE))
unzip("temp.zip")
readr::read_csv("en_1991-2020_Normals_station_metadata_MB_BRANDON.csv")
readr::read_csv("en_1991-2020_Normals_station_threads_MB_BRANDON.csv")