# Seeking Guidance: Accessing PurpleAir Monitor Data for Virginia

**URL:** <https://community.purpleair.com/t/seeking-guidance-accessing-purpleair-monitor-data-for-virginia/22609>\
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**Created:** [April 3, 2026, 3:55pm UTC](https://community.purpleair.com/t/seeking-guidance-accessing-purpleair-monitor-data-for-virginia/22609 "2026-04-03T15:55:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![Carolyn\_Caraballo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.purpleair.com/carolyn_caraballo/32/10788_2.png) [@Carolyn\_Caraballo](https://community.purpleair.com/u/Carolyn_Caraballo)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2026, 3:55pm UTC](https://community.purpleair.com/t/seeking-guidance-accessing-purpleair-monitor-data-for-virginia/22609/1 "2026-04-03T15:55:41Z")

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Hello everyone,

I am currently working on a research project related to air quality monitoring and am trying to identify all PurpleAir monitors located in the state of Virginia. Specifically, I am looking for a way to obtain a list of monitors along with information indicating whether each monitor is categorized as indoor or outdoor.

I have reached out to the PurpleAir team directly, but I wanted to also ask the community in case someone has experience working with this data.

If anyone has suggestions on:

- how to retrieve a list of PurpleAir sensors for a specific state,

- whether indoor/outdoor classification is available in the public dataset or API,

- or tools/scripts others have used to extract this information,

I would greatly appreciate your guidance.

Thank you in advance for any help or direction you can provide.

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**Author:** ![ShawnBoyle](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.purpleair.com/shawnboyle/32/6816_2.png) [@ShawnBoyle](https://community.purpleair.com/u/ShawnBoyle)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2026, 12:24am UTC](https://community.purpleair.com/t/seeking-guidance-accessing-purpleair-monitor-data-for-virginia/22609/2 "2026-06-26T00:24:56Z")

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Hi Carolyn,

I can see that we addressed this inquiry internally. For anyone else reading this, you can certainly get this type of data through our API. The `location_type` field from our API being included in a [bounding box query](https://community.purpleair.com/t/finding-large-amounts-of-sensor-indexes-bounding-box-api-call/5688) is a sensible approach here. For those unfamiliar with using our API, [we have an article to help you get started](https://community.purpleair.com/t/about-the-purpleair-api/7145).