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Find my organization ID?

Your org identifier is available in the Dashboard.

  • Pick "Organization> Resources" from the menu.
  • Under the header "Organization" you will find the label "Org ID:" and the correct identifier for your organization.
  • Copy it to your clipboard by clicking on the icon to the right.

Find orgId in Dashboard

Find my personal API key and use it?

Your personal API Key is available in the "Your Account" menu, which you open by clicking on the person icon in the top right corner of the Dashboard. It looks like this:

Your Account Menu Icon

To use your API Key, pass it in the x-api-key header on all requests.

Postman, a popular tool for testing APIs, could be configured to pass your API Key as in the image below. Be sure to provide your own API key, not the fake API key in this image.

How to send the API key through Postman

Fetch only recent PM2.5 NowCast AQI for my datasources?

You can POST to the /v2/recent-datasource-measurements-query endpoint using your favorite programming language or API testing tool.

Postman, a popular tool for testing APIs, could be configured as in the image below. Be sure to:

  • replace the the org indentifier "faqOrg123" with the correct one for your organization.
  • on the "Headers" tab, provide your api key in the x-api-key header

Fetching recent measurements with filtered metrics