Tutorial: how to get data from your eLos ?

You have one or several eLos stations associated to your eLichens' account. In this tutorial, we provide you some guidelines and usefull scripts to manage your stations and retrieve data for your personal usage.

1. Get your API key


To exploit your eLos, you need a eLichens' account and to have your stations attached to your account.
  • The first solution is to connect to the eLichens' lab and go to the profile page. Your API key is a sequence of alphanumerical characters.
  • If you have any trouble to find it, please contact elichens to get this information.
To use this page examples, please register your API key here:

2. List of stations


You can list the stations attached to your account. You will receive a list of station with a lot of additional data such as there name or locations.

You can use the following commands:
Direct API call: (you need to parse the result)
https://api.elichens.com/v0/stations/by-user?api_key=xxx
CSV file: (Use this URL to generate and download a CSV file)
https//http://usecases.elichens.com//listOfStations.php?api_key=xxx
Integration example: Where are my stations ?
You can check the location of your stations. This function calls the API request and process result to display stations on the map.
If location is not correct, please contact eLichens.

3. Retreive data from a station


Please wait while we are fetching your list of stations... You don't have any stations attached to your account... Please contact elichens to get support.
Please select a station:

1. Direct API call

You can get the last data from your eLos with this API call:
https://api.elichens.com/v0/stations/xxx/measures?aki_key=xxx

You can also specify a period but the number of data returned is limited. We advise to ask data for one day only.
Enter a day to get the corresponding API call:
https://api.elichens.com/v0/stations/xxx/measures?aki_key=xxx
You can easily adapt this URL by changing before and since values which correspond to the time period timestamp (UTC).
You can also get data per hour:
https://api.elichens.com/v0/stations/xxx/hourly?aki_key=xxx
You can easily adapt this URL by changing before and since values which correspond to the time period timestamp (UTC).

2. CSV file generation for data extraction

You can use the following URL to extract eLos data from a starting date up to the current day into a CSV file directly.
Enter a starting day: .
Select the information you want:
The following URL can be used to retrieve data:
https//http://usecases.elichens.com//listOfStations.php?api_key=xxx