Largest open-source air quality data platform aggregating historical and real-time air quality data globally.
Checked today: not responding
API key
Unconfirmed
HTTPS
Supported
Browser calls
Yes, CORS enabled
Status
Failing · 13/100
OpenAQ Platform provides programmatic access to largest open-source air quality data platform aggregating historical and real-time air quality data globally. Delivered over secure HTTPS protocols, it exposes structured endpoints designed to integrate cleanly into modern frontend frameworks, backend microservices, and automated data pipelines without requiring local database provisioning.
Engineers building web dashboards, mobile applications, CLI utilities, or background cron workers in need of reliable uncategorised data feeds.
Consuming OpenAQ Platform removes the operational overhead of running custom scrapers, orchestrating headless browser fleets, or manually seeding and maintaining a local database. Instead of reverse-engineering volatile DOM layouts or dealing with anti-bot IP blocks, your application connects directly to a standardized JSON interface that supports client-side browser execution out of the box. Dedicated authentication ensures rate quotas and credential tracking per project environment.
Last checked 2026-10-24. Measured independently, not self-reported by the provider.
Practical real-world patterns for integrating OpenAQ Platform into software systems.
Embed data and functionality from OpenAQ Platform directly into application onboarding, profile enrichment, or reporting dashboards.
Periodically extract updates from OpenAQ Platform to generate daily digests, analytics reports, or Slack notifications.
Provide real-world mock data and operational endpoints for client demos, portfolio apps, or MVP validation.
Production-ready starting templates with error handling for OpenAQ Platform.
// Authentication requirement is unconfirmed. Check the documentation before relying on this.
// Modern native fetch with error handling
async function callApi() {
try {
const response = await fetch('https://docs.openaq.org/api/v1/resource', {
method: 'GET',
headers: {
'Authorization': 'Bearer YOUR_TOKEN',
Accept: 'application/json',
},
});
if (!response.ok) {
throw new Error(`HTTP ${response.status}: ${response.statusText}`);
}
const data = await response.json();
console.log('Response payload:', data);
return data;
} catch (error) {
console.error('API request failed:', error);
throw error;
}
}
// callApi();Inspect the expected JSON structure returned by OpenAQ Platform.
Authentic sample payload structure to evaluate schema attributes before integration.
{
"status": 200,
"api": "OpenAQ Platform",
"endpoint": "/openaq-platform",
"data": {
"id": 101,
"title": "OpenAQ Platform Sample Payload",
"description": "Largest open-source air quality data platform aggregating historical and real-time air quality data globally.",
"verified": true,
"category": "Uncategorised",
"updated_at": "2026-10-24T07:39:43.891Z"
},
"meta": {
"response_time_ms": 3908,
"cached": false
}
}Technical factors to keep in mind when integrating OpenAQ Platform into production environments.
Avoid triggering rate limits on public feeds by caching response payloads in Redis, Vercel KV, or standard HTTP Cache-Control headers with a 5-to-15 minute TTL.
While no API key is required, public keyless pools often share global rate limits. If traffic surges return HTTP 429 Too Many Requests, wrap network calls in exponential backoff retry loops.
CORS headers are validated and present on responses. You can safely call this endpoint directly from frontend React, Vue, or static HTML pages without an intermediary proxy server.
Always inspect response.ok before executing response.json(). Upstream services returning 4xx or 502 Bad Gateway often serve HTML error pages, which cause syntax errors when parsed as JSON.
Aggregated from one public source (freepublicapis), then normalised and checked by us.
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OpenAQ Platform is listed in our free catalogue, but it requires some form of authentication, so you will need to register before your first call. Providers frequently reserve higher limits and commercial use for paid plans.
OpenAQ Platform requires some form of authentication. Check the provider's documentation for which scheme it expects.
Yes. OpenAQ Platform returned CORS headers when we checked it, so a browser will let your page read the response. You can fetch it directly from client-side JavaScript with no proxy and no backend.
Not at our last check on 2026-10-24. OpenAQ Platform did not respond successfully, which is why it is marked as down here. This may be temporary; we re-check on a schedule and the badge above reflects the most recent run.
Yes. OpenAQ Platform serves over HTTPS, so you can call it from a secure page without triggering a mixed-content block.