Rainfall Map

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After a recent comment on twitter, I started looking into if there was an official rain / precipitation report form the Government of Saskatchewan. The Ministry of Agriculture has two reports: https://www.saskatchewan.ca/business/agriculture-natural-resources-and-industry/agribusiness-farmers-and-ranchers/programs-and-services/information-services-for-agribusiness-farmers-and-ranchers/maps-for-farmers-and-agribusiness

• Weekly Rainfall: https://publications.saskatchewan.ca/#/products/113951
• Cumulative Rainfall: https://publications.saskatchewan.ca/#/products/113952

The PDFs live in publications.saskatchewan.ca and are available via their API: https://publications.saskatchewan.ca/api/v1/products/113952/formats/128248/download

Look into how easy it would be to figure out the URL and regularly download.

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This is handy: https://publications.saskatchewan.ca/api/v1/products

This takes a very long time to return, but sends back a huge JSON dump of all pdocuts available. Specifying an ID will return just that data: https://publications.saskatchewan.ca/api/v1/products/113951

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  "longDescriptionFrench": null,
  "agencyId": 46,
  "agency": {
    "agencyId": 46,
    "name": "Agriculture",
    "description": "",
    "agencyTypeId": 1,
    "agencyType": {
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      "description": "Government or External Agency",
      "active": true
    },
    "minimumOrderPrice": 0.00,
    "active": true,
    "primaryAddress": {
      "agencyAddressId": 45,
      "agencyId": 46,
      "agencyName": "Agriculture",
      "addressLine1": "3085 Albert Street",
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      "city": "Regina",
      "provinceCode": "SK",
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      "countryCode": "CA",
      "phoneNumber": "-",
      "name": "Agriculture",
      "isPrimary": true,
      "gtdsUnitCode": "AG",
      "url": "http://www.saskatchewan.ca/agriculture",
      "email": null
    },
    "productCount": 3603,
    "userCount": 8
  },
  "agencyBranchId": 46,
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    "name": "Agriculture",
    "description": "",
    "agencyTypeId": 1,
    "agencyType": {
      "agencyTypeId": 1,
      "description": "Government or External Agency",
      "active": true
    },
    "minimumOrderPrice": 0.00,
    "active": true,
    "primaryAddress": {
      "agencyAddressId": 45,
      "agencyId": 46,
      "agencyName": "Agriculture",
      "addressLine1": "3085 Albert Street",
      "addressLine2": "",
      "city": "Regina",
      "provinceCode": "SK",
      "postalCode": "S4S0B1",
      "countryCode": "CA",
      "phoneNumber": "-",
      "name": "Agriculture",
      "isPrimary": true,
      "gtdsUnitCode": "AG",
      "url": "http://www.saskatchewan.ca/agriculture",
      "email": null
    },
    "productCount": 3603,
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  },
  "productSubTypeId": 53,
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    "productTypeId": 1,
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    },
    "description": "Document",
    "active": true
  },
  "productStatusType": "ACTIVE",
  "productFormatSortType": "DESCRIPTION",
  "productPublicationDate": "2021-08-04",
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  "contactAddressId": 45,
  "contactAddress": {
    "agencyAddressId": 45,
    "agencyId": 46,
    "agencyName": "Agriculture",
    "addressLine1": "3085 Albert Street",
    "addressLine2": "",
    "city": "Regina",
    "provinceCode": "SK",
    "postalCode": "S4S0B1",
    "countryCode": "CA",
    "phoneNumber": "-",
    "name": "Agriculture",
    "isPrimary": true,
    "gtdsUnitCode": "AG",
    "url": "http://www.saskatchewan.ca/agriculture",
    "email": null
  },
  "productNtsMaps": [
    
  ],
  "productFormats": [
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      "productFormatId": 128247,
      "productId": 113951,
      "productFormatMediumType": "DIGITAL",
      "productFormatType": "PDF",
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      "isPrimary": true,
      "productVersion": null,
      "language": "English",
      "description": null,
      "price": 0.00,
      "formatPublicationDate": null,
      "activeTimestamp": "2021-08-04T19:24:57Z",
      "inactiveTimestamp": null,
      "pageCount": null,
      "digitalAttributes": {
        "productFormatDigitalId": 59043,
        "productFormatId": 128247,
        "fileName": "crprpt20210804a.pdf",
        "contentType": "application/pdf",
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    }
  ],
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Attempted to hit: https://publications.saskatchewan.ca/api/v1/products/?agencyID=46

Received:

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Inspecting network traffic to attempt to figure out API.

• https://publications.saskatchewan.ca/api/v1/agencies/
• https://publications.saskatchewan.ca/api/v1/agencies/46/
• https://publications.saskatchewan.ca/api/v1/products/
• https://publications.saskatchewan.ca/api/v1/products/113951
• https://publications.saskatchewan.ca/api/v1/agencies/46/categories
• https://publications.saskatchewan.ca/api/v1/products/popular?agencyId=46
• https://publications.saskatchewan.ca/api/v1/products/featured?active=true&agencyId=46
• https://publications.saskatchewan.ca/api/v1/products/113951/related
• https://publications.saskatchewan.ca/api/v1/products/113951/info
• https://publications.saskatchewan.ca/api/v1/categories/5529
• https://publications.saskatchewan.ca/api/v1/products?categoryId=5529
• https://publications.saskatchewan.ca/api/v1/products/?agencyId=46 (appears to work???)
• https://publications.saskatchewan.ca/api/v1/categories/5346/index