ACE Data API

JSON endpoint

GET https://aceofcanes.com/api/v1/season.json

One file with both basins’ current season: ACE total, NOAA classification, storm counts, rank since 1991, every named storm with its landfalls and track, and the ACE of every season since 1991. It is rebuilt with the site, about once an hour during the season. No key, no sign-up, CORS-friendly static file.

• Wind speeds are in knots.
• Current-season values are preliminary (NHC real-time best track) and are revised in the post-season HURDAT2 release.
• Each storm’s url links to its page on this site, which is handy for linking back.

Versioning

The /api/v1/ shape is a public contract. New fields can be added to v1 at any time, so ignore fields you don’t know. A field will never be renamed or removed in v1: that ships as a new /api/v2/ path, and v1 keeps working.

Examples

curl + jq

curl -s https://aceofcanes.com/api/v1/season.json | jq '.basins.atlantic | {ace_total, classification, rank}'

JavaScript

const res = await fetch('https://aceofcanes.com/api/v1/season.json');
const data = await res.json();
const atl = data.basins.atlantic;
console.log(`${atl.year} Atlantic ACE: ${atl.ace_total} (${atl.classification})`);

Python

import requests

data = requests.get('https://aceofcanes.com/api/v1/season.json', timeout=10).json()
for s in data['basins']['atlantic']['storms']:
    print(s['name'], s['ace'], s['category'])

Fields

<basin> is atlantic or pacific; [] means each item of an array.

RSS feed

https://aceofcanes.com/feed.xml

One item per named storm in both basins, newest first, with its ACE, peak intensity and landfalls. Each storm keeps the same guid, so your reader announces it once and the description updates as the storm grows.