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Vigicrues Flood Vigilance RSS

French river flood-vigilance RSS items for building a dated regional river-warning view.

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At a Glance

Difficulty
Beginner — comfortable for a first prototype
Size
Tiny · ≤0.001 GB
Formats
RSS
Access
API
API Key
Not Required
Provider
Vigicrues
Updates
Near Real Time
Last Verified
Sep 28, 2026
Source Type
Government Source
Data Terms
Public Vigicrues content is reusable under the French Etalab Open Licence with source and update-date attribution; third-party map content has separate rights.
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From Source to Product Signal

Test a Product Idea in Four Steps

The official Vigicrues feed supports regional hazard context. Start with two French river-vigilance items; a feed item covers its named river segment, not every nearby location.

1

Check the Setup

  • Python 3.10 or newer
  • An internet connection
  • The requests Python package
2

Access the Data

  1. 1.Read the official feed documentation and reuse terms.
  2. 2.Fetch one bounded official response.
  3. 3.Inspect two records and retain their validity period.
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3

Run the Python Example

Install the packages, then run the notebook cell.

python -m pip install requests

import requests
from xml.etree import ElementTree as ET

response = requests.get("https://www.vigicrues.gouv.fr/territoire/rss", timeout=20)
response.raise_for_status()
root = ET.fromstring(response.content)
for item in root.findall("./channel/item")[:2]:
    print(item.findtext("title"), item.findtext("pubDate"), item.findtext("link"))
4

Test a Useful Signal

Map Dated Regional Warnings

Inspect two French river-vigilance items with official validity and source links.

  1. 01Fetch one official response and retain its issue time.
  2. 02Display two region or river records with their source links.
  3. 03Explain why coverage and validity cannot be inferred beyond the named area.

Related Datasets

Dataset Details

Vigicrues is a government source. Last verified 2026-09-28. Temporal coverage: seasonal or current official warnings.

Geography

France

Formats

RSS

Provider

Vigicrues

Data Terms

Public Vigicrues content is reusable under the French Etalab Open Licence with source and update-date attribution; third-party map content has separate rights.

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