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Real time Air Quality Index from various locations

Hourly pollutant readings from Central Pollution Control Board stations across India, served through the data.gov.in API.

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About

This resource on the Open Government Data (OGD) Platform India carries real-time National Air Quality Index readings from Central Pollution Control Board monitoring stations, published under the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change. Each record names the country, state, city, station, latitude, and longitude, then a pollutant_id with pollutant_min, pollutant_max, and pollutant_avg. Monitored pollutants include sulphur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, PM10, PM2.5, carbon monoxide, and ozone. Frequency and granularity are listed as hourly, and jurisdiction as All India.

One GET endpoint on api.data.gov.in returns the table in JSON, XML, or CSV, paged with offset and limit.

An operator filters the rows to the stations nearest your sites and proposes a filter change, a ventilation setting, or an outdoor-shift notice for your approval.

This is a reference listing. It documents what Fibric would read from Real time Air Quality Index from various locations and what it could propose, based on the publisher's published interfaces. Fibric builds it under a managed deployment when you request it; selecting it here installs nothing.

Inputs

  • Station readings by pollutant_id: pollutant_min, pollutant_max, and pollutant_avg per record
  • Station location fields: country, state, city, station, latitude, and longitude
  • Sulphur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, PM10, PM2.5, carbon monoxide, and ozone as the monitored pollutants
  • The full resource through GET /resource/3b01bcb8-0b14-4abf-b6f2-c1bfd384ba69 on api.data.gov.in, in json, xml, or csv
  • Paging with offset and limit, where limit is capped at 1000 records per request

Proposed actions

Read-only. This feed informs operators; it changes nothing.

Proposed actions are target capabilities. Every action runs propose-first and needs a validated deployment and the appropriate permissions.

What you can build

  • Change filters where the particulate load is high

    Filter Change reads PM2.5 and PM10 averages at the station nearest each building and proposes an earlier filter swap when readings stay high. Indoor Air proposes a recirculation setting for the same hours. Each proposal waits for your approval.

    With Filter Change, Indoor Air

  • Move outdoor shifts on a bad-air morning

    Schedule Notice reads the morning readings for each city and drafts a notice to crews on outdoor rosters when a station near their site reports high pollutant levels. A supervisor approves before it goes out.

    With Schedule Notice

  • Brief managers by city each morning

    Morning Brief lists the latest station averages for each city where you operate, so a manager sees which sites start the day in poor air.

    With Morning Brief

Requirements

  • A registered data.gov.in account with an email address, which the portal requires for API key generation
  • The station names or coordinates that match your sites, since the API filters by field values rather than by radius
  • Attribution under the Government Open Data License - India
Authentication
A free data.gov.in API key passed as the api-key query parameter; you generate it under My Account after registering on the portal.

Limits

  • The sample key in the documentation returns at most 10 records; your own key is needed for the full table
  • limit is capped at 1000 records per request, so a national pull is paged with offset
  • Records carry min, max, and average per pollutant; there is no composite AQI field per station
  • The catalog states no licence beyond the portal-wide Government Open Data License - India

Access and pricing

Reference listing. Public feed access is separate from Fibric integration. If you request this feed, your quote covers the build, usage, and support.

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Questions and answers

Do I need an API key?
Yes. Every request needs an api-key query parameter. The portal publishes a sample key that returns at most 10 records. For full access, register on data.gov.in, add an email address to the account, and generate a key under My Account.
What formats and paging does the API support?
The format parameter accepts json, xml, or csv, with json as the default. offset skips records and limit caps how many are returned, up to 1000 per request.
How current is the data?
The resource lists both frequency and granularity as hourly, and readings come from CPCB monitoring stations as they report. The record's updated date on the portal moves with each refresh.
Ask about Real time Air Quality Index from various locations

Ask about the capabilities and requirements in this listing.

For project-specific requirements, contact Fibric.

This Commons signal listing is developed, published, and supported by Fibric. It reads public data published by Central Pollution Control Board via Open Government Data (OGD) Platform India (api.data.gov.in). Upstream agencies and projects are the property of their respective owners, who are not affiliated with Fibric and do not sponsor or endorse this listing. Trademark policy