NSIDC Web Service Documentation Index API

Overview

This API allows programmers to build National Snow and Ice Data Center data and metadata services into their applications.

NSIDC Web Service Documentation Index is an open data API from nsidc.org. It needs no API key. It is served over HTTPS. Its OpenAPI description documents 4 endpoints.

At a glance

Authentication

No auth

HTTPS

Yes

CORS

Unknown

Category

Open Data

Base URL

http://nsidc.org/api/dataset/2

Version

1.0.0

Endpoints

4

OpenAPI

Specification ↗

Spec updated

2020-01-07

Make a first request

Replace the placeholders; the documentation says exactly where credentials go.

curl -X GET "http://nsidc.org/api/dataset/2/Facets" \
  -H "Accept: application/json"

const response = await fetch("http://nsidc.org/api/dataset/2/Facets", {
  method: "GET",
  headers: {
    "Accept": "application/json",
  },
});
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);

import requests

response = requests.request(
    "GET",
    "http://nsidc.org/api/dataset/2/Facets",
    headers={
    "Accept": "application/json",
    },
    timeout=30,
)
print(response.json())

Endpoints

Questions