NDBC Marine Buoy Observations Scraper — NOAA Ocean Data
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NDBC Marine Buoy Observations Scraper — NOAA Ocean Data
Extract real-time meteorological and oceanographic observations from NOAA NDBC moored buoys and coastal stations. Wind, waves, pressure, water and air temperature for 1,000+ stations worldwide.
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NDBC Marine Buoy Observations Scraper
Extract real-time meteorological and oceanographic observations from the NOAA National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) network — over 1,000 moored buoys, coastal stations, and partner platforms reporting wind, waves, pressure, water temperature, and air temperature in near real time.
This Actor merges the active-station metadata (location, owner, station type) with the latest observation feed published by NDBC, giving you a single clean JSON record per station. No API key required.
Why scrape NDBC data?
- Maritime operations: monitor sea state for shipping, fishing fleets, offshore construction, and search-and-rescue planning.
- Surf forecasting: pull live wave height, period and direction for surf/swell prediction apps.
- Insurance & risk: validate storm severity and sea-state for marine claims and parametric weather products.
- Renewable energy: track wind and wave conditions near offshore wind farms.
- Research: build long-term datasets of coastal climate without scraping each station page by hand.
Output fields
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
stationId | NDBC station identifier (e.g. 41001) |
stationName | Human-readable station name |
owner / program | Operating agency and program |
stationType | buoy, fixed, dart, ship, etc. |
latitude / longitude | Station position |
observationTimeUtc | UTC timestamp of the latest report |
windDirectionDeg / windSpeedMs / gustSpeedMs | Wind |
waveHeightM / dominantPeriodSec / averagePeriodSec / meanWaveDirectionDeg | Wave state |
pressureHpa / pressureTendencyHpa | Atmospheric pressure |
airTempC / waterTempC / dewPointC | Temperatures |
visibilityNmi / tideFt | Other |
stationPageUrl | Link to the live NDBC station page |
How to use
- Click Try for free and open the input form.
- Optionally limit by station IDs, owner/network, bounding box, or require wave data.
- Run the actor — output is published to the default dataset in JSON, CSV, or Excel formats.
Pricing
Pay-per-result. Each station observation = one record. A full unfiltered run returns the latest observation from every reporting NDBC station (typically 600–900 records). Apify compute charged separately.
Tutorial: how to scrape buoy data for a region
- Set
minLat/maxLat/minLon/maxLonto your bounding box (for the US East Coast try24 / 45 / -82 / -65). - Set
requireWaveData = trueto drop stations that only report met data. - Run. Use the
stationPageUrlto jump to NDBC's full historical archive for any station of interest.
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- CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Scraper
- NOAA Tides & Currents Scraper
- USGS Earthquake Scraper
FAQ
Does this need an API key? No. NDBC publishes both feeds publicly.
How fresh is the data? Most stations report every 10–60 minutes; NDBC aggregates them into the latest-observation feed.
Are international stations included? Yes — NDBC integrates partner buoys from CDIP, the International Tsunameter Partnership, PRMARRA, and others.
Legal
Data is sourced from the public NDBC feeds operated by NOAA. Use is subject to NDBC's terms; please attribute NOAA when redistributing.
