🌊 PEGELONLINE Water Levels Scraper

🚀 Export Germany's live river gauge readings in one run. Pull current water levels from the full WSV PEGELONLINE network of 700+ active stations.

Turn the official WSV PEGELONLINE service into clean, structured records you can drop into a flood dashboard, a hydrology model, or a shipping planner. Every record is one gauge station with its current water level, the water body it sits on, when the reading was taken, the gauge zero datum, and exact coordinates.

Coverage is the live German federal waterway gauge network as PEGELONLINE publishes it: stations on the Rhein, Elbe, Donau, Weser, Aller, and many more rivers, canals, and tidal reaches, each reporting its latest water level in centimeters. The Actor keeps only stations that actually publish a water-level reading, so you never get empty rows for sensors that measure other things.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Flood and emergency response teams	Track rising levels across rivers in one pass
Hydrologists and researchers	Snapshot the national gauge network on a schedule
Inland shipping and logistics planners	Watch fairway depths on key waterways
Civic and environmental developers	Power maps, alerts, and open-data apps

📋 What the PEGELONLINE Water Levels Scraper does

This Actor calls the public WSV PEGELONLINE REST service and returns one clean record per gauge station that reports a water level:

• Station identity — name, UUID, official station number, operating agency, and river kilometer.
• Location — water body name plus latitude and longitude.
• Current reading — water level value, unit, the exact measurement timestamp, and trend states.
• Reference datum — gauge zero value, its unit, and the date it became valid.

You can filter by station name or by water body, control how many records come back, and every record carries a scrapedAt timestamp.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: agency, gaugeZero, gaugeZeroUnit, gaugeZeroValidFrom, km, latitude, longitude, measuredAt, number, scrapedAt, stationName, trendMnwMhw, trendNswHsw, unit, uuid, waterBody, waterLevel. All 17 field names come from a real production run, 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 PEGELONLINE Water Levels Scraper.
3. Optionally set a station or water filter to narrow the network.
4. Set maxItems to the number of records you want.
5. Click Start and grab your results when the run finishes.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: independent tool, not affiliated with WSV, GDWS, or PEGELONLINE. Only publicly available data is collected.

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