Seeds file

[Mogee1]

Hi thanks for the great code, super useful. Could you help me understand the reason of the seeds file? It seems that all the information can be obtained based on the SpotID alone

[swrobel]

Not sure what you mean here. Spot IDs are arbitrary and assigned by the database. The seeds create the actual list of spots to check for forecast data along with their Surfline & Spitcast IDs

[Mogee1]

So for example this SpotID 590927576a2e4300134fbed8 Provides me always the data output from the wave endpoint for Venice Breakwater https://services.surfline.com/kbyg/spots/forecasts/wave/?spotId=590927576a2e4300134fbed8 Hence I do not understand why there is a Seed file that requires updating if the SpotID seems to be sufficient to pull the information directly. Maybe it does not work for some other spots which are not in the Seeds file?

[swrobel]

How does the app know that the surfline_id you provided is associated with Venice? That's what the seed file is for.

[Mogee1]

Ah okay perfect that‘s understood thanks, so it‘s an internal dictionary of the app to link the SpotID from Surfline which is fixed to the Name of the Location