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Manufacturers

The Manufacturers resource in the OpenAQ API provides information on the companies that produce the air quality monitoring instruments.

Purpose and Use

The Manufacturers resource allows users to identify who manufactured the instrument producing the air quality measurement. Understanding the origins of the equipment is useful for assessing the reliability of the instruments.

Note: This metadata is not available in all cases, and will be replaced with placeholder information.

Key fields

  • id: a unique identifier for each manufacturer.
  • name: the name of the manufacturer.
  • instruments: a list of instruments produced by the manufacturer, including their ID and name. See the Instruments resource page for more information.

Example response payload

https://api.openaq.org/v3/manufacturers/4

{
    "meta": {
        "name": "openaq-api",
        "website": "/",
        "page": 1,
        "limit": 100,
        "found": 1
    },
    "results": [
        {
            "id": 4,
            "name": "Unknown Governmental Organization",
            "instruments": [
                {
                    "id": 2,
                    "name": "Government Monitor"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}