iamwebwiz/air-quality-api

Air Quality API

REST API that exposes "the air quality information" of a nearest city to GPS coordinates

Requirements

• Node.js
• MongoDB

Setup

Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/iamwebwiz/air-quality-api.git

Navigate to the cloned directory

cd air-quality-api

Install dependencies using npm, yarn or pnpm

yarn

Copy the contents of .env.example to .env

cp .env.example .env

Update the values of IQAIR_API_KEY and MONGODB_URI in the .env file

Start mongodb on your machine, then

Start the development server

yarn dev

Endpoints

/api/air-quality

Get the air quality for a given zone (longitude and latitude)

Query params (required):

• longitude
• latitude

Sample response:

{
  "Result": {
    "Pollution": {
      "ts": "2024-05-06T12:00:00.000Z",
      "aqius": 47,
      "mainus": "p2",
      "aqicn": 16,
      "maincn": "p2"
    }
  }
}

/api/air-quality/most-polluted

Get the date and time where the Paris zone is most polluted

Sample response:

{
  "Result": {
    "Date": "Mon May 06 2024",
    "Time": "16:00:00 GMT+0100 (West Africa Standard Time)"
  }
}

Testing

To run the available tests, run the following command:

yarn test

or

npm run test

or

pnpm test