Hello all, I’m reaching out to request raw data over a five-year period for the state of California (2017-2022). My team is conducting research and had been working with the AirSensor package, but unfortunately with recent changes, are having some difficulties. We have tried the following: Reque…

I’m having same problem. Can’t figure out how to download long term historical data now that the old Sensor Download Data Tool has been retired. The most data I am able to download is 2 weeks, when in past I have been able to download multiple years. Appreciate any help on how to download large i…

I am also having the same problem. I need two years of data from 6 sensors and am trying to figure out a way to get the data via the API with limited success. Have any of you tried to email purpleair support?

If you wanted hourly data, you’d need to break your individual requests into 2-week increments (the max request period for hourly data) per sensor, going back 2 years. You’d likely wanted to loop your input variables (sensor index, start time, end time) over the request URL in a program like R, and …

PurpleAir Guys we all need our data back online as soon as possible. The server change is by no means a believable excuse.

Att Purple Air, I ask …Where is your heart Note you at PurpleAir stated from the start. PurpleAir is built on the ideal of sharing data and by doing this, empowering individuals to effect change. All public PurpleAir data is available to download under various licenses Now your sensor users find …

Any chance you have some example code you’d be willing to share??

This thread has a link to a generalized version of the script I use to pull the last two weeks of hourly data for the sensors we have deployed. Also, here is a snippet of code that loops the request period (2 weeks of hourly data) over the request URL, instead of looping the sensor index over the U…

I just uploaded a python script to download and compile historical data from the API here . Hope it helps.

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Ethan (Ethan) March 8, 2023, 6:09pm 11

Yesterday we released a temporary download tool for users to download PurpleAir data. We have a community article about it here: PurpleAir Data Download Tool.

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