Command Line Interface¶
The Solar Forecast Arbiter command line interface (CLI) is used to automate
a handful of common tasks. After installing solarforecastarbiter
,
the command line intereface may be invoked using the solararbiter
command. Run solararbiter -h
for help. The CLI may also be accessed
using python solarforecastarbiter.cli
.
CLI tasks that use the API will look for credentials stored in the
environment variables SFA_API_USER
and SFA_API_PASSWORD
.
The supported tasks include:
validate |
Run the validation tasks for a given set of observations |
referencedata |
|
fetchnwp |
Retrieve weather forecasts with variables relevant to solar power from the NCEP NOMADS server. |
referencenwp |
Make the reference NWP forecasts that should be issued around run_time |
report |
Make a report. |