aid: western-power url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/western-power/refs/heads/main/apis.yml name: Western Power kind: company description: Western Power is the Western Australian state-owned statutory corporation that owns and operates the electricity transmission and distribution network — the poles, wires, substations and streetlights — across the South West Interconnected System (SWIS), from Kalbarri in the north to Albany in the south and east to Kalgoorlie, across more than 103,000 km of powerlines, 825,788 poles and towers, 276,000 streetlights and 154 transmission substations. It is a regulated network distributor (DNO/DSO), not a retailer and not a generator; Synergy is the SWIS retailer for residential and small-business customers and AEMO operates the WA Wholesale Electricity Market. Its API posture is honestly minimal — there is no developer portal, no published API program, no developer documentation and no published OpenAPI anywhere on westernpower.com.au (developer./api./docs./data. subdomains all fail to resolve; /developers, /docs and /openapi.json all return 404). It is nonetheless not API-less. Three anonymous machine-readable surfaces were verified on 2026-07-27 — an undocumented first-party JSON API at westernpower.com.au/api/corp/outage/* that backs the public outage tracker and returns every current and upcoming outage, one outage with hazard flags and update history, and a per-suburb rollup; an Esri ArcGIS Online feature service serving the same outages as polygons with SQL, spatial and statistical query; and the corporate site's own search, news and vacancy endpoints. All are internal endpoints of Western Power's web applications — robots.txt disallows /api/ — with no reference, no terms of use, no versioning, no SLA and no support channel. Consumer energy data is real but not programmatic — a third party must register a business with Western Power and collect verifiable customer consent, after which up to two years of interval and accumulated metering data is delivered by email or a web portal, never an API. Australia's Consumer Data Right, the mandate that forced identical banking APIs and was then transplanted into energy, does not reach this organisation at all — CDR energy covers National Electricity Market retailers, and Western Australia sits outside the NEM while distributors were never designated data holders in any state. Its 36 network asset and capacity datasets are published through the WA Government DataWA/SLIP portals as "open data subject to registering for access" under Western Power's own data licence — WFS, WMS and ArcGIS REST endpoints that return HTTP 401 to an anonymous caller. image: https://www.westernpower.com.au/faviconImages/apple-touch-icon.png tags: - Energy - Australia - Utilities - Electricity - Grid - Network Distribution - Smart Metering - Open Data - GIS - Outages created: '2026-07-27' modified: '2026-07-27' specificationVersion: '0.19' apis: - aid: western-power:western-power-outage-web-api name: Western Power Outage Web API description: The undocumented first-party JSON API behind the public Western Power outage tracker. The outage page declares its own endpoints in markup — all-outages-endpoint="/api/corp/outage/all-outages" and single-outage-endpoint="/api/corp/outage/details/" — and all three operations answer anonymous unauthenticated HTTPS GET with application/json (verified HTTP 200 on 2026-07-27). listAllOutages returns every current and upcoming outage as a bare unpaginated array (211 records, 61 KB observed) with incident reference, planned/unplanned type, start and estimated restoration times, customers impacted, affected suburbs and a centroid. getOutageDetails adds an update history and bushfire, total-fire-ban, weather and fire-weather-warning hazard flags, answering an unknown identifier with HTTP 204 rather than 404. getSuburbOutageStatus returns a per-suburb rollup and never signals an error. Western Power publishes no reference, no terms of use, no versioning, no rate limits, no SLA and no support channel for any of it, and robots.txt disallows /api/ to crawlers. The OpenAPI below was derived by API Evangelist from live probes, not published by the provider. humanURL: https://www.westernpower.com.au/outages/ baseURL: https://www.westernpower.com.au/api/corp/outage tags: - Outages - Grid - Real Time - Electricity - JSON properties: - type: OpenAPI name: OpenAPI 3.1 (derived by API Evangelist from live probes) url: openapi/western-power-outage-openapi.yml - type: Overlay url: overlays/western-power-outage-overlay.yaml - type: Examples name: Live sample responses captured 2026-07-27 url: examples/western-power-all-outages-sample.json - type: Examples url: examples/western-power-outage-details-sample.json - type: Examples url: examples/western-power-outage-status-sample.json - type: AgentSkill name: Check Western Power outages url: skills/western-power-check-outages.md - type: Documentation url: https://www.westernpower.com.au/outages/ - aid: western-power:western-power-corporate-web-api name: Western Power Corporate Web API description: The anonymous read endpoints behind westernpower.com.au itself — site search, the news article feed and the careers vacancy feed. These are internal endpoints of the Optimizely/EPiServer corporate site, declared in the site's own JavaScript bundle and reachable without authentication (verified HTTP 200 on 2026-07-27). /api/search is backed by Optimizely Find and returns paged hits, a did-you-mean suggestion, content-type facets and — unusually — an embedded suburb outage rollup so a search box can surface outage status inline. /api/corp/vacancies and /api/corp/newsarticles serve the careers and newsroom listings. robots.txt disallows /api/, and Western Power publishes no documentation, terms of use or SLA for these endpoints. The OpenAPI below was derived by API Evangelist from live probes and from parameter names read out of the site's client bundle. humanURL: https://www.westernpower.com.au/ baseURL: https://www.westernpower.com.au/api tags: - Search - Content - Careers - News - JSON properties: - type: OpenAPI name: OpenAPI 3.1 (derived by API Evangelist from live probes) url: openapi/western-power-corporate-web-openapi.yml - type: Overlay url: overlays/western-power-corporate-web-overlay.yaml - type: Examples url: examples/western-power-search-sample.json - type: Examples url: examples/western-power-vacancies-sample.json - aid: western-power:western-power-outage-areas-feature-service name: Western Power Outage Areas Feature Service description: Live outage data for the South West Interconnected System, served as an Esri ArcGIS Online hosted feature service (layer 0, "Outage_Areas") that backs the public Western Power outage tracker at westernpower.com.au/outages/. Western Power does not document or advertise this as an API, but the service answers anonymous unauthenticated requests (verified HTTP 200 on 2026-07-27), is self-describing via the standard ArcGIS REST `?f=json` metadata convention, and supports the Query capability with a 2,000-record page size. Each outage polygon carries OUTAGETYPE, INCIDENTREF, ENARNUMBER, OUTAGESTARTTIME, ESTIMATEDRESTORATIONTIME, PLANNEDOUTAGE, NOCUSTOMERSIMPACTED, TIMEADDED, AFFECTED_AREA and AFFECTED_AREA_NOCUSTOMERS. No API key, token or registration is required; equally, no support, SLA, terms of use or deprecation policy is published for it. humanURL: https://www.westernpower.com.au/outages/ baseURL: https://services2.arcgis.com/tBLxde4cxSlNUxsM/ArcGIS/rest/services/WP_Outage_Prod/FeatureServer tags: - Outages - Grid - GeoJSON - ArcGIS - Real Time properties: - type: OpenAPI name: OpenAPI 3.1 (derived by API Evangelist from harvested ArcGIS metadata) url: openapi/western-power-arcgis-outage-openapi.yml - type: Overlay url: overlays/western-power-arcgis-outage-overlay.yaml - type: AgentSkill name: Query Western Power outage geography url: skills/western-power-query-outage-geography.md - type: ServiceMetadata url: arcgis/wp-outage-featureserver.json - type: ServiceMetadata url: arcgis/wp-outage-layer0-outage-areas.json - type: SampleResponse url: arcgis/wp-outage-sample-query-response.json - type: Documentation url: https://www.westernpower.com.au/outages/ - aid: western-power:western-power-public-secure-services-slip name: Western Power Public Secure Services (SLIP) description: Western Power's network asset and capacity spatial data — distribution and transmission overhead powerlines, underground cables, poles, pillars, pits, transformers, enclosures, substations, streetlights, underground power project areas and the Network Capacity Mapping Tool forecast remaining-capacity layers — published as 36 datasets on the WA Government DataWA catalogue and served from the Landgate SLIP platform as ArcGIS REST MapServer/FeatureServer, OGC WFS and OGC WMS endpoints plus GeoJSON, GeoPackage, File Geodatabase and Shapefile downloads. DataWA labels these "open data subject to registering for access"; access is automatically granted on registering an email address and agreeing to Western Power's data licence terms and conditions. Anonymous calls are rejected — both the MapServer root and layer 10 returned HTTP 401 Unauthorized on 2026-07-27, and the bulk download host redirects to /Account/Login. Authenticated access uses Esri token authentication via token.slip.wa.gov.au. humanURL: https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/distribution-overhead-power-lines-wp-031 baseURL: https://services.slip.wa.gov.au/arcgis/rest/services/WP_Public_Secure_Services/WP_Public_Secure_Services/MapServer tags: - Open Data - GIS - Grid - Network Capacity - WFS properties: - type: Catalog url: catalog/datawa-western-power-datasets.json - type: CatalogEntry url: catalog/datawa-wp-031-distribution-overhead-powerlines.json - type: Documentation url: https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/group/about/western-power-group - type: License url: https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/wp-licence-terms-and-conditions - type: Application url: https://www.westernpower.com.au/resources-education/calculators-tools/network-capacity-mapping-tool/ common: - type: AgenticAccess url: agentic-access/western-power-agentic-access.yml - type: DomainSecurity url: security/western-power-domain-security.yml - type: Authentication name: Authentication profile — anonymous, Esri token, session login url: authentication/western-power-authentication.yml - type: Conventions name: API conventions — pagination, date formats, caching, rate limiting url: conventions/western-power-conventions.yml - type: ErrorCatalog name: Error behaviour — three inconsistent idioms, 204-as-not-found url: errors/western-power-problem-types.yml - type: Lifecycle name: Lifecycle — no versioning, no deprecation policy, no SLA url: lifecycle/western-power-lifecycle.yml - type: Conformance name: Standards conformance — geospatial only, no energy data standard url: conformance/western-power-conformance.yml - type: DataModel name: Data model — one Outage entity projected two incompatible ways url: data-model/western-power-data-model.yml - type: WellKnown name: /.well-known/ discovery probe — every path 404 url: well-known/western-power-well-known.yml - type: Packages name: Client libraries — none published (probed negative) url: packages/western-power-packages.yml - type: LLMsTxt url: llms/western-power-llms.txt - type: AgentSkill name: Agent skills index url: skills/_index.yml - type: GitHubOrganization name: GitHub organisation (verified, 0 public repositories) url: https://github.com/Western-Power - type: TermsOfService url: https://www.westernpower.com.au/terms--conditions/ - type: PrivacyPolicy url: https://www.westernpower.com.au/privacy-policy/ - type: Support url: https://www.westernpower.com.au/about/contact-us/ - type: Website url: https://www.westernpower.com.au/ - type: About url: https://www.westernpower.com.au/about/ - type: Blog url: https://www.westernpower.com.au/news/ - type: OpenData url: https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/group/about/western-power-group - type: License url: https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/wp-licence-terms-and-conditions - type: Documentation url: https://www.westernpower.com.au/resources-education/industry-resources/retailers-and-generators/ - type: Registration url: https://www.westernpower.com.au/issues-enquiries/requests-preferences/registration-for-access-to-energy-data/ - type: Consent url: https://www.westernpower.com.au/issues-enquiries/requests-preferences/verifiable-consent-for-access-to-energy-data/ - type: Portal url: https://services.westernpower.com.au/online/nbu/do/restricted/Home - type: Portal url: https://www.mywpprojects.westernpower.com.au/ maintainers: - FN: Kin Lane email: kin@apievangelist.com