Getting started with Ambee’s Flood API

import http.client

conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection("api.ambeedata.com")

headers = {
    'x-api-key': "API_KEY",
    'Content-type': "application/json"
}

conn.request("GET", "/disasters/processed/latest/by-lat-lng?lat=37.7823&lng=-122.3912&eventType=FL", headers=headers)

res = conn.getresponse()
data = res.read()

print(data.decode("utf-8"))

const http = require('https');

const options = {
	method: 'GET',
	hostname: 'api.ambeedata.com',
	port: null,
	path: '/disasters/processed/latest/by-lat-lng?lat=37.7823&lng=-122.3912&eventType=FL',
	headers: {
		'x-api-key': 'API_KEY',
		'Content-type': 'application/json'
	}
};

const req = http.request(options, function (res) {
	const chunks = [];

	res.on('data', function (chunk) {
		chunks.push(chunk);
	});

	res.on('end', function () {
		const body = Buffer.concat(chunks);
		console.log(body.toString());
	});
});

req.end();

OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient();

Request request = new Request.Builder()
	.url("https://api.ambeedata.com/disasters/processed/latest/by-lat-lng?lat=37.7823&lng=-122.3912&eventType=FL")
	.get()
	.addHeader("x-api-key", "API_KEY")
	.addHeader("Content-type", "application/json")
	.build();

Response response = client.newCall(request).execute();

using System.Net.Http.Headers;
var client = new HttpClient();
var request = new HttpRequestMessage
{
	Method = HttpMethod.Get,
	RequestUri = new Uri("https://api.ambeedata.com/disasters/processed/latest/by-lat-lng?lat=37.7823&lng=-122.3912&eventType=FL"),
	Headers =
	{
		{ "x-api-key", "API_KEY" },
	},
};
using (var response = await client.SendAsync(request))
{
	response.EnsureSuccessStatusCode();
	var body = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
	Console.WriteLine(body);
}

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://api.ambeedata.com/disasters/processed/latest/by-lat-lng?lat=37.7823&lng=-122.3912&eventType=FL"

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)

	req.Header.Add("x-api-key", "API_KEY")
	req.Header.Add("Content-type", "application/json")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(res)
	fmt.Println(string(body))

}

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
	CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.ambeedata.com/disasters/processed/latest/by-lat-lng?lat=37.7823&lng=-122.3912&eventType=FL",
	CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
	CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
	CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
	CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
	CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
	CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
	CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
		"Content-type: application/json",
		"x-api-key: API_KEY"
	],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
	echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
	echo $response;
}

curl --request GET \
	--url 'https://api.ambeedata.com/disasters/processed/latest/by-lat-lng?lat=37.7823&lng=-122.3912&eventType=FL' \
	--header 'Content-type: application/json' \
	--header 'x-api-key: API_KEY'

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://api.ambeedata.com/disasters/processed/latest/by-lat-lng?lat=37.7823&lng=-122.3912&eventType=FL")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
request["x-api-key"] = 'API_KEY'
request["Content-type"] = 'application/json'

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

{
    "message": "success",
    "hasNextPage": false,
    "page": 1,
    "limit": 10,
    "result": [
        {
            "event_type": "FL",
            "alert_level": "Green",
            "city": "San Francisco",
            "continent": "nar",
            "country_code": "USA",
            "created_time": "2026-06-16 00:37:25",
            "date": "2026-06-15 21:35:00",
            "details": {
                "description": "High tides causing inundation above ground level.",
                "total_precipitation": null,
                "death": null,
                "injured": null,
                "affected": null,
                "impact": "Flooding of lots, parks, and roads with only isolated road closures expected. Dangerous conditions are forecast along the shoreline due to sneaker waves, strong rip currents, and large breaking waves.",
                "flood_height": 0.54864
            },
            "end_date": null,
            "estimated_end_date": "2026-06-18 12:00:00",
            "event_id": "5cf202482be4fdb2b947192767b68fb1",
            "event_name": "Coastal Flood Advisory in San Francisco",
            "expiry_time": "2026-06-18 12:00:00",
            "lat": 37.76008100341221,
            "source_event_id": "oid.2.49.0.1.840.0.9d2afb8468233f8cc7fe2c8c99d1b5be1224b980.001.1",
            "state": "California",
            "type": "alert",
            "lng": -122.44565406594042,
            "proximity_severity_level": "High Risk"
        }
    ]
}

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