🌊 NOAA CoastWatch ERDDAP Ocean Data Scraper

🚀 Pull ocean buoy and station readings in seconds. Get station ID, latitude, longitude, timestamp, water temperature, air temperature, and wind speed from NOAA CoastWatch ERDDAP, or browse the full dataset catalog.

Turn the NOAA CoastWatch ERDDAP data server into clean, structured records you can drop into a marine forecast, a climate study, a coastal-monitoring dashboard, or a research notebook. Choose Station records to pull oceanographic observations from a tabledap dataset, or Dataset catalog to list every dataset available on the server with its coverage metadata.

Coverage spans NOAA's CoastWatch ERDDAP holdings. The default station dataset is cwwcNDBCMet, the NDBC Standard Meteorological Buoy Data feed, with thousands of buoys and coastal stations worldwide reporting water and air temperature, wind, and more. When no time window is given, the Actor auto-selects a recent one-hour window anchored to the dataset's latest available data, so a default run always returns fresh rows.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Marine forecasters and meteorologists	Pull live buoy water and air temperature, wind
Climate and ocean researchers	Build time series from station observations
Coastal and port operators	Monitor conditions at specific stations
Data engineers and app developers	Catalog ERDDAP datasets and feed pipelines

📋 What the NOAA CoastWatch ERDDAP Scraper does

This Actor calls the public NOAA CoastWatch ERDDAP server and runs in one of two modes:

• Station records (data) — pulls observations from a tabledap dataset. station, longitude, latitude, and time are always included; you choose the extra measurement variables (water temp wtmp, air temp atmp, wind speed wspd, and any others the dataset offers).
• Dataset catalog (catalog) — lists every dataset on the server with its title, institution, time and spatial coverage, and tabledap/griddap URLs.

Every record carries a scrapedAt timestamp.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: atmp, datasetId, latitude, longitude, results, scrapedAt, station, time, wspd, wtmp. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

🚀 How to use

1. Create a free Apify account using this sign-up link.
2. Open the NOAA CoastWatch ERDDAP Ocean Data Scraper.
3. Choose a mode (data or catalog).
4. For data, set datasetId, variables, an optional time window, and an optional stationFilter.
5. Set maxItems, click Start, and grab your results when the run finishes.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: independent tool, not affiliated with NOAA or CoastWatch. Only publicly available data is collected.

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