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id: dwdwfsapi
version: "1.1.0"
license: unclear
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
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# dwdwfsapi — Python client to retrieve data provided by DWD via their geoserver WFS API

License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Downloads: 73.6K/mo

## What it is and what it does

dwdwfsapi is a Python client that queries the German Weather Service (DWD) Geoserver to fetch real-time weather warnings, bio-weather forecasts, and pollen flight predictions for specific German locations. You initialize it with a warncell ID, GPS coordinates, or location name, and it retrieves structured warning data including severity levels, event types, time ranges, and health impact information.

The package wraps the DWD's WFS (Web Feature Service) API, handling the HTTP requests via requests and urllib3, and parses the responses into Python dictionaries and datetime objects. It's designed for applications that need to display or act on German weather alerts—such as mobile apps, home automation systems, or health-related services—and supports periodic polling via its update() method to keep data current.

Use it for:

- Display current and forecast weather warnings for a specific German region in a mobile or web app.
- Trigger automated alerts or notifications when a new weather warning reaches a certain severity level.
- Build a health advisory system that shows bio-weather impacts (e.g., asthma risk, cardiovascular stress) for a user's location.
- Integrate pollen flight forecasts into allergy management or outdoor activity planning applications.
- Monitor multiple warncells and aggregate warning data for regional dashboards or emergency response systems.

## Worth the install?

AI-flagged interpretation of the facts above — verify before relying.

Retrieves weather warnings, bio-weather forecasts, and pollen flight data for German locations from the DWD (Deutscher Wetterdienst) Geoserver WFS API.

Yes, if you need to integrate German weather warnings or bio-weather forecasts into a Python application. The package is actively maintained, has no known vulnerabilities, installs with minimal friction, and is licensed permissively. The main constraint is the Python 3.11+ requirement; if your project supports that, it's a straightforward choice for DWD data access.

## Install

pip install dwdwfsapi
uv add dwdwfsapi
poetry add dwdwfsapi

## Installing dwdwfsapi

Before you install: Installs cleanly with only two common dependencies (requests and urllib3). Actively maintained with recent commits; last update in August 2026 and latest release in March 2024.

License in practice: Licensed under MIT (permissive), allowing free use, modification, and distribution with minimal restrictions.

Quickstart:

pip install dwdwfsapi

from dwdwfsapi import DwdWeatherWarningsAPI
dwd = DwdWeatherWarningsAPI('813073088')
if dwd.data_valid:
    print(dwd.current_warning_level)
    for warning in dwd.current_warnings:
        print(warning)

Requires Python 3.11 or later.

Verify before relying:

- Whether the package handles rate limiting or connection failures gracefully when querying DWD servers.
- Whether forecast data is cached or always fetched fresh on each update() call.
- Whether the pollen flight module is fully documented in the public API or still in development.

## Package facts

- License: not declared (permissive)
- Python support: supports_current
- Install friction: low
- Maintenance: active
- Downloads: 73.6K/month (top 15,000 on PyPI)
- Known vulnerabilities: none known

## Tags

german weather warnings api, dwd wfs client, weather alerts germany, bio weather forecast, pollen flight forecast, deutscher wetterdienst data, wfs weather data retrieval, weather-data, german-services, wfs-client

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