🌤 JMA Japan Forecast Scraper

🚀 Scrape Japan Meteorological Agency regional weather forecasts.

🕒 Last updated 2026-07-17 · 📊 9 fields per record · no API key needed

Export to spreadsheet, JSON, JSONL, XML, RSS, or HTML. Every record is mapped to a consistent schema - area, code, weather code, weather description, wind, wave and more, so you can filter, join and export without any glue code. No account or API key required to try it.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Analysts, developers, researchers and operators who need this data as clean rows	Data collection, enrichment, monitoring, and feeding apps, sheets or models

📋 What the JMA Japan Forecast Scraper does

• Collects the records you ask for as clean, structured rows
• Returns 9 fields per record including area, code, weather code, weather description, wind, wave
• Consistent, flat schema - ready for a spreadsheet, database or app
• Exports to CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML

💡 Why it matters: the raw source returns nested, paged responses. This Actor flattens them into one clean row per record, so the data drops straight into your workflow.

🎬 Full Demo (🚧 Coming soon)

⚙️ Input

Field	Type	Description
maxItems	integer	Cap on the number of results. Free: 10. Paid: up to 1,000,000.
prefectureCode	string	JMA prefecture office code. e.g. 130000.

{"maxItems":25,"prefectureCode":"130000"}

📊 Output

Each item is one record with 9 fields:

Field	Type	Description
area	string	Area
code	string	Code
weatherCode	string	Weather Code
weatherDescription	string	Description
wind	string	Wind
wave	string	Wave
temps	string	Temps
reportDatetime	string	Report Datetime
scrapedAt	string	Scraped At

✨ Why choose this Actor

• Clean, flat schema - ready to use
• No API key or account needed
• Export to CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML
• Pay-per-event billing - only pay for records returned

🚀 How to use

1. Create a free account w/ $5 credit
2. Open the Actor on Apify Console
3. Fill in the input fields
4. Click Start
5. Download the results as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML

💼 Use cases

Research and analysis - study the data at scale in your own tools.

Enrichment - add structured records to a database, sheet or app.

Monitoring - track changes over time with scheduled runs.

Datasets - build clean datasets for reporting, dashboards or models.

🔌 Automating JMA Japan Forecast Scraper

Trigger the Actor via Make, Zapier, Slack, Airbyte, GitHub Actions, Google Drive, n8n or any HTTP webhook on Apify's integration platform.

🤖 Ask an AI assistant about this scraper

Paste this README into ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity or Copilot and ask how to integrate the data into your workflow.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

❓ Do I need an API key? No - just set the input and run.

❓ Free users? Capped at 10 items per run - perfect for testing.

❓ What output formats? CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML - pick on the Storage tab.

❓ Is the data live? Yes - fetched at run time from www.jma.go.jp.

❓ Can I schedule it? Yes - use Apify's scheduler or any webhook integration.

🔌 Integrate with any app

Apify provides webhooks, REST API, scheduled runs, dataset downloads, and integrations with Make, Zapier, n8n, Slack, Google Drive, Airbyte, GitHub Actions, and more.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: independent tool, not affiliated with any data source named above. Only publicly available data is collected.