🌊 UK Flood and River Monitoring Scraper

🚀 Pull live UK river levels and flood warnings in seconds. Get the latest reading from thousands of Environment Agency monitoring stations plus every active flood alert across England.

Track water levels, flow, and rainfall from the UK Environment Agency real-time flood-monitoring network, and watch flood warnings and alerts as they are raised. Each monitoring station returns its river, label, town, catchment, coordinates, measured parameter, unit, and the most recent reading with its timestamp. Each flood warning returns its area, severity, river or sea, county, and the full public message.

Coverage spans the Environment Agency station network across England, including river level gauges, flow gauges, and tipping-bucket rainfall gauges, along with live flood alerts, flood warnings, and severe flood warnings published through the official open service.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Hydrologists and environmental analysts	Track river levels and flood risk over time
Insurance and risk teams	Monitor flood exposure by area and severity
Developers and data engineers	Feed live water data into apps and dashboards
Researchers and journalists	Study flooding patterns and report on events
Emergency planners and local councils	Stay aware of active alerts in their region

📋 What the UK Flood and River Monitoring Scraper does

This Actor reads the UK Environment Agency Flood-Monitoring service and turns it into clean, structured records. In stations mode it lists monitoring stations and resolves the latest reading per station, so you get the current water level, flow, or rainfall value together with the reading time. In floods mode it lists active flood warnings and alerts with their severity and message. You can narrow station results by measured parameter, river name, or town.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: label, latestReadingDateTime, latestValue, parameter, recordType, results, riverName, scrapedAt, severity, stationReference, town, unitName. 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. Sign up for a free Apify account using this link.
2. Open the UK Flood and River Monitoring Scraper.
3. Choose stations or floods mode and set maxItems.
4. Add optional station filters for parameter, river, or town.
5. Run the Actor and collect your records from the dataset.

🔗 Recommended Actors

• ParseForge collection for more open data and web scrapers.
• Weather and environmental data Actors for added context.
• Geocoding Actors to enrich station coordinates.

💡 Pro Tip: browse the complete ParseForge collection.

⚠️ Disclaimer: independent tool, not affiliated with the UK Environment Agency. Only publicly available data collected. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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