Mountain News Partner API

The Web Service offered by OnTheSnow.com/SkiInfo.com allows media organizations to add real time snow reports and resort information for ski resorts throughout the world.

The Mountain News Snow & Weather Report API provides real-time weather and operating data for ski resorts throughout the world. It is a fee-based service designed for media companies, governments, and financial institutions that wish to use the data for external or internal purposes.

Getting access

To learn more about licensing the data please contact our sales team with your use case.

Authentication

Upon being granted access to the API, you will be provided a key to access the Mountain News API. The api uses API key-based authentication, to request an api resource simply append x-api-key to your http header requests with the api key provided.

Example curl request

curl -X GET "https://partner.api.onthesnow.com.com/prod/resort/482/snowreport" \
     -H "x-api-key: your-api-key-value" \
     -H "Content-Type: application/json"

API Resource

The Partners API is a RESTful JSON API. For complete details on the available resources and response formats, refer to the API reference. The primary resources provided by the API include:

  • Resorts: This endpoint is used to filter resorts to a particular region, then use the resort ids to subsequently return snow and weather data.

  • Resort / Snowreport: Snow conditions, trail statuses, lift statuses, and other key operational details.

  • Resort / Weather: Provides daily and hourly weather forecasts for a ski resort.

  • Resort / Webcams: Grants access to live ski resort webcams with daily updates.

  • Resort / Profile: Delivers profile information for a ski resort, including its location and other useful details.

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