🌍 Sensor.Community Air Quality Sensor Scraper

🚀 Export the live Sensor.Community network in seconds. Pull thousands of citizen air sensor readings from a single snapshot covering 70+ countries.

Turn the Sensor.Community open network into clean, structured measurements you can map, chart, or load into a database. Each run reads a public snapshot of the whole network and returns one record per sensor measurement, with the sensor model, its location, and every reading flattened into named fields like PM10, PM2.5, temperature, humidity, and pressure.

Coverage is the full live network as Sensor.Community publishes it: tens of thousands of measurements in every snapshot, from particulate sensors like the SDS011 to climate sensors like the BME280, spread across more than 70 countries. You can keep the whole world or narrow down to one country or one sensor model.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Air quality researchers	Build a worldwide snapshot of PM10 and PM2.5
Civic tech and open data groups	Power a local air map or dashboard
Data scientists and students	Source a clean training and analysis set
Environmental journalists	Spot pollution spikes across a region

📋 What the Sensor.Community Air Scraper does

This Actor calls the public Sensor.Community data feed and returns one clean record per measurement:

• Identity — measurement id, sensor id, sensor model, and manufacturer.
• Location — latitude, longitude, altitude, country, and an indoor flag.
• Readings — particulate values P1 (PM10) and P2 (PM2.5), plus temperature, humidity, pressure, noise, CO2, and radiation where the sensor reports them.

Different sensor models report different readings, so fields outside a sensor's scope come back null. A raw values map is also included so no reported value type is ever lost. Every record carries a scrapedAt timestamp.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: P0, P1, P2, P4, altitude, co2, country, humidity, id, indoor, latitude, locationId, longitude, noiseLAeq, noiseLAmax, noiseLAmin, pressure, pressureAtSealevel, radiationMSI, scrapedAt, sensorId, sensorManufacturer, sensorType, temperature, timestamp, values. All 26 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 Sensor.Community Air Quality Sensor Scraper.
3. Pick a mode (live or 1h).
4. Optionally set a country and a sensorType, then set maxItems.
5. Click Start and grab your results when the run finishes.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: independent tool, not affiliated with Sensor.Community. Only publicly available data is collected.

🆘 Need Help?

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