Welcome to the SoilHive API

SoilHive API provides access to a wealth of soil and spatial data, facilitating research, analysis, and data-driven decision making. Our API leverages modern web standards like JSON-LD and schema.org to ensure data is well-structured, discoverable, and interoperable.

To start using SoilHive API:

  1. Visit account.soilhive.ag
  2. Click on the "Sign up" link.
  3. Create an account, verify your email and login.
  4. Click on "Create application" to register a SoilHive client application
  5. Generate a token and use it in our API reference

Available resources

  • Spatial Filters: retrieve spatial filters to refine your data queries.
  • Soil Properties: access detailed information about various soil properties.
  • Data sets: retrieve available datasets, including metadata and download links.
  • Get soil data: provides immediate access to soil data given a small geographical area of interest.
  • Request soil data: create asynchronous queries to retrieve comprehensive soil data for a given list of soil properties.