# Weather & Air Quality Scraper - Any Location (`loopchips/weather-air-quality`) Actor

Current conditions, multi-day forecast and air quality for any coordinates or city. Temperature, rain, wind, sunrise and sunset, plus PM2.5, PM10, ozone and both European and US air quality indexes. Includes Korea's own fine-dust grading.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/loopchips/weather-air-quality.md
- **Developed by:** [Loopchips](https://apify.com/loopchips) (community)
- **Categories:** Travel, Automation, News
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$1.50 / 1,000 weather rows

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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Actors are written with capital "A".

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The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## Weather & Air Quality Scraper

Current conditions, a multi-day forecast, and air quality for any location.

Each location returns one row for right now and one row per forecast day, so the
output drops straight into a sheet or a database.

### What you get

**Weather**

| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| `weather` | Plain words: Clear sky, Overcast, Heavy rain, Thunderstorm |
| `temperature` / `feelsLike` | Now, and how it feels |
| `temperatureMax` / `temperatureMin` | Daily high and low |
| `precipitation` / `precipitationChance` | Rainfall and probability |
| `windSpeed` / `windDirection` | Wind |
| `sunrise` / `sunset` | Local times |

**Air quality**

| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| `pm25` / `pm10` | Fine and coarse particulates |
| `ozone` / `nitrogenDioxide` / `sulphurDioxide` / `carbonMonoxide` | Pollutants |
| `europeanAqi` / `usAqi` | Both index systems |
| `koreanDustGrade` | Korea's own fine-dust bands, which differ from the European scale |

### Example input

```json
{
  "locations": ["Seoul@37.5665,126.9780", "Tokyo@35.6762,139.6503"],
  "forecastDays": 3,
  "includeAirQuality": true
}
```

Locations accept three forms:

- `37.5665,126.9780` - coordinates, the most reliable
- `Seoul` - a name, looked up for you
- `Seoul@37.5665,126.9780` - your own label with exact coordinates

### Example output

```json
{
  "location": "Seoul",
  "rowType": "current",
  "weather": "Mainly clear",
  "temperature": 25.4,
  "feelsLike": 28.9,
  "pm25": 5.4,
  "usAqi": 49,
  "koreanDustGrade": "Good"
}
```

### What people use it for

- **Retail and demand planning** - weather moves sales of a lot of categories
- **Logistics** - rain and wind on a delivery route, days ahead
- **Health and travel products** - fine dust matters daily in much of East Asia
- **Dashboards** - one row per location per day, ready to chart

### Pricing

Pay per result. One current row plus one row per forecast day, per location.

### Notes

- Air quality figures appear on the current conditions row. Forecast rows carry
  weather only.
- Data is provided by Open-Meteo under CC BY 4.0. Keep the `attribution` field
  when you publish results.

# Actor input Schema

## `locations` (type: `array`):

Coordinates as "37.5665,126.9780", a city name as "Seoul", or both as "Seoul@37.5665,126.9780". Coordinates are the most reliable.

## `forecastDays` (type: `integer`):

How many days ahead to include, on top of the current conditions row.

## `includeAirQuality` (type: `boolean`):

Adds PM2.5, PM10, ozone and air quality indexes to the current conditions row.

## `temperatureUnit` (type: `string`):

Which unit temperatures are returned in.

## `requestDelayMs` (type: `integer`):

Pause between locations so the source is not hit too quickly.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "locations": [
    "Seoul@37.5665,126.9780",
    "Tokyo@35.6762,139.6503"
  ],
  "forecastDays": 3,
  "includeAirQuality": true,
  "temperatureUnit": "celsius",
  "requestDelayMs": 300
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `weather` (type: `string`):

Current conditions and forecast rows for every location requested.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "locations": [
        "Seoul@37.5665,126.9780",
        "Tokyo@35.6762,139.6503"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("loopchips/weather-air-quality").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "locations": [
        "Seoul@37.5665,126.9780",
        "Tokyo@35.6762,139.6503",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("loopchips/weather-air-quality").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "locations": [
    "Seoul@37.5665,126.9780",
    "Tokyo@35.6762,139.6503"
  ]
}' |
apify call loopchips/weather-air-quality --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,loopchips/weather-air-quality"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/ZpSgtdYuoxdAGau2v/builds/y7XBIyW30rasRvNsv/openapi.json