Solar API

  • The Solar API provides access to solar information for buildings and regions, including the ability to find the closest building to a point and get solar data for a region.

  • The Solar API offers REST resources for building insights, data layers, and GeoTIFF image retrieval.

  • Developers can interact with the Solar API using Google-provided client libraries or their own libraries, utilizing the provided discovery document and service endpoint.

  • The service endpoint for the Solar API is https://solar.googleapis.com, and all URIs are relative to this endpoint.

Solar API.

Service: solar.googleapis.com

To call this service, we recommend that you use the Google-provided client libraries. If your application needs to use your own libraries to call this service, use the following information when you make the API requests.

Discovery document

A Discovery Document is a machine-readable specification for describing and consuming REST APIs. It is used to build client libraries, IDE plugins, and other tools that interact with Google APIs. One service may provide multiple discovery documents. This service provides the following discovery document:

Service endpoint

A service endpoint is a base URL that specifies the network address of an API service. One service might have multiple service endpoints. This service has the following service endpoint and all URIs below are relative to this service endpoint:

  • https://solar.googleapis.com

REST Resource: v1.buildingInsights

Methods
findClosest GET /v1/buildingInsights:findClosest
Locates the building whose centroid is closest to a query point.

REST Resource: v1.dataLayers

Methods
get GET /v1/dataLayers:get
Gets solar information for a region surrounding a location.

REST Resource: v1.geoTiff

Methods
get GET /v1/geoTiff:get
Returns an image by its ID.