what observatory data do we have in the BGS WDC web app?. front end at http://wdc.bgs.ac.uk/dataportal/

wdc_per_statuion_holdings.py

import requests

url_base = r'http://app.geomag.bgs.ac.uk/wdc/'
station_resource = 'stations'
stations_url = url_base + station_resource

response = requests.get(stations_url)

# dictionary with IAGA codes as primary keys
stations = response.json()

station = 'ESK'
lat = 'latitude'
lon = 'longitude'
elev = 'elevation'
cadence = 'hour'

assert station in stations.keys()
stn_data = stations.get(station)
print('{}: lat {}, lon {}, elev {}'.format(
    station,
    stn_data.get(lat),
    stn_data.get(lon),
    stn_data.get(elev)
))
assert cadence in stn_data.get('dataAvailability'), \
    '{}-ly data exist in WDC for {}'.format(cadence, station)