Overview

Welcome

The Fathom API has been created to serve Fathom's global flood risk intelligence data on demand.

Fathom provides two methods of access to data via the API: a RESTful HTTP API, and client SDKs.

REST is a common form of data exchange between web services; gRPC is less common. It is a high performance, open source RPC framework based on a client-server model of remote procedure calls. A client application can directly call methods on a server application as if it was a local object.
More information can be found here: https://grpc.io/.

The preferred method of interaction with Fathom's API is via SDKs built upon gRPC. Information about the SDKs can be found here: SDK Overview.