Steel profiles API

API for requesting profile data for standard European construction steel profiles.

Currently supported profiles are:

• HEA
• HEB
• HEM
• IPE
• IPN
• UPN

API home page: steelapi.timskovjacobsen.com

Endpoints

• GET /api/{profile_type}

  E.g. to get data for all HEA profiles, visit steelapi.timskovjacobsen.com/api/hea

• GET /api/{profile_type}/{dimension}

  E.g. to get data for the profile HEA120, visit steelapi.timskovjacobsen.com/api/hea/120 and you will get this response:

  {
    "HEA120":{
      "index":1,
      "name":"HEA120"
      ,"h":114,
      "b":120,
      "tw":5.0,
      "tf":8.0,
      "r":12,
      "d":74,
      "A":25.3,
      "G":19.9,
      "Iy":606,
      "Wy":106.0,
      "iiy":4.89,
      "Iz":231,
      "Wz":38.5,
      "iiz":3.02
    }
  }

It's possible to use uppercase profile names in the URL, like HEA.

API Docs

See the swagger API Docs for more info.

Miscellaneous

The REST API is built with Python and the FastAPI framework. It uses Nginx in front of the API as a reverse proxy. Nginx is configured with SSL certificates to provide a secure HTTPS connection protocol via Let's Encrypt.

The API is deployed on a virtual machine running Ubuntu 20.04 hosted with Digital Ocean.

Shout-out to the Modern APIs with FastAPI and Python course for inspiring this project.

Contributing

If you want to contribute it's greatly appreciated. Take a look at CONTRIBUTING.md to get started.