Flood & River Discharge Scraper

hipersoft/flood-scraper

Get daily river discharge (flood) data for any river location: mean, max and min flow as history back to 1984 and up to 210-day forecast. Look up by place name or coordinates and export as JSON, CSV or Excel for flood risk, insurance, agriculture and research.

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Total users

Monthly users

Total runs

Per row scraped

$0.0002

Last rebuilt

Oct 26, 2026

Overview

Track river flow and flood risk anywhere with the Flood & River Discharge Scraper. Enter place names or coordinates and export daily river discharge — mean, max and min flow — as history back to 1984 and up to a 210-day forecast — one clean row per day as JSON, CSV or Excel.

Built for flood-risk and early-warning systems, insurance and reinsurance, agriculture and water management, and hydrological research, it turns global river-model output into a structured dataset you can drop into any product or workflow.

What it does

🌊 River discharge — daily flow in m³/s for any river location worldwide.
📈 Stats & ensemble — mean, max, min, median and percentile discharge.
🕰️ History + forecast — reanalysis back to 1984 and up to 210 days ahead.
📍 Name or coordinates — type "Dhaka" or pass exact coordinates; batch many at once.
🧱 Tidy rows — one row per day, each variable as its own column.
📤 Export anywhere — JSON, CSV or Excel, or straight into an alert, model or dashboard.

Example output

{
  "name": "Dhaka",
  "date": "2024-07-01",
  "river_discharge": 6.93,
  "river_discharge_mean": 6.77,
  "river_discharge_max": 7.77,
  "river_discharge_min": 6.10,
  "latitude": 23.7,
  "longitude": 90.4
}

How to use it

Add place names near a river and/or exact coordinates.
Set a date range for history, or leave it empty and choose forecast days.
Run, and download the results as JSON, CSV or Excel.

Input fields

Field	Description
Places (by name)	Place names near a river to resolve and look up.
Locations (by coordinates)	Exact `{name, latitude, longitude}` objects.
Start / End date	Historical range as YYYY-MM-DD (data from 1984).
Forecast days	Days of forecast when no date range is set (1–210).
Daily variables	Which discharge metrics to include (mean, max, min, percentiles).
Max rows	Cap on total rows across all locations (0 = no limit).

Output fields

name, query, latitude, longitude, country, admin1, date, and one column per requested discharge variable (river_discharge, river_discharge_mean, river_discharge_max, river_discharge_min, and percentiles).

Popular use cases

Flood early warning — watch forecast discharge rise toward flood thresholds.
Insurance & reinsurance — quantify river-flow exposure over history and forecast.
Agriculture & water — plan irrigation and reservoir operations around flow.
Research & modeling — build long river-discharge time series for any basin.
Reporting — compare a season's flow to historical norms.

FAQ

Do I need an account or key? No. Enter your locations and run.

What is river discharge? The volume of water flowing past a river point per second (m³/s) — the core signal for flood risk.

How far back and forward does it go? History from 1984, plus a forecast up to 210 days ahead.

Why did a point return nothing? Discharge is modeled on rivers — place the point on or near a river channel.

Can I export to Excel or Google Sheets? Yes — results download as JSON, CSV or Excel and integrate with alerts, models and dashboards.

Structured river discharge and flood data — daily mean, max and min flow, history and forecast — clean and export-ready for flood risk, insurance, agriculture and research.

Input

Field	Type	Description
`places` Places (by name)	array	Place names near a river to look up, one per line (e.g. "Dhaka", "New Orleans", "Cologne"). Each name is resolved to coordinates automatically. Use this OR the Locations field below (you can combine both).
`locations` Locations (by coordinates)	array	Exact coordinates as a list of objects: {"name": "Gauge 1", "latitude": 23.7, "longitude": 90.4}. The optional name is used as a label; latitude and longitude are required.
`startDate` Start date (optional)	string	First day to fetch, as YYYY-MM-DD (e.g. 2024-07-01). Leave empty to use the forecast window instead. History is available from 1984.
`endDate` End date (optional)	string	Last day to fetch, as YYYY-MM-DD. Set together with Start date for a historical range.
`forecastDays` Forecast days	integer	When no date range is set, how many days of forecast to fetch from today (1–210). Default: `30`
`daily` Daily variables	array	River-discharge variables to include, one per line. Options: river_discharge, river_discharge_mean, river_discharge_max, river_discharge_min, river_discharge_median, river_discharge_p25, river_discharge_p75. Leave as-is for a sensible default set. Default: `["river_discharge", "river_discharge_mean", "river_discharge`
`maxItems` Max rows	integer	Maximum rows to collect across all locations (0 = no limit). Default: `0`
`proxyConfiguration` Proxy (optional)	object	Optional proxy settings for the run. Not required — the data is fetched over plain HTTP. Default: `{"useApifyProxy": false}`

API

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/hipersoft~flood-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
  "places": [
    "Dhaka",
    "New Orleans"
  ],
  "locations": []
}'

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("hipersoft/flood-scraper").call(run_input={
    "places": [
        "Dhaka",
        "New Orleans"
    ],
    "locations": []
})

for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN' });
const run = await client.actor('hipersoft/flood-scraper').call({
  "places": [
    "Dhaka",
    "New Orleans"
  ],
  "locations": []
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

Pricing

Event	Price	Paid plans from
Row scraped One day of river discharge for one location	$0.0002	$0.0001

You pay only for what the run returns. Set a maximum cost per run and it stops cleanly at that limit.

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