Package: pydatagovgr
pydatagovgrA Pythonic client for the officialdata.gov.grAPI. Aims to be an easy, intuitive and
out-of-the-box way to:find data published by central government, local authorities and public bodies of Greecebuild related products and services.while being robust, following best-practices and eliminating developer-induced bugs.The aspiration for this library is to enable users of different backgrounds (academia, industry, students etc.) with
an interest to programmatically explore and utilize the open data of data.gov.gr, to do so without having to
write-debug-maintain trivial code or worry about that.InstallThe recommended installation is viapip:pipinstallpydatagovgrQuick UsageYou must have an account ondata.gov.grto use the API service. In order to register and request
an API token, submit a request in the designated official formhere. The procedure is very
simple and takes less than 5 minutes.frompydatagovgrimportDataGovClientgov=DataGovClient(token='xoxb-1234-1243')# fetch the COVID-19 vaccination datacovid_data=gov.query('mdg_emvolio')# fetch data on Greece's internet traffictraffic_data=gov.query('internet_traffic')# fetch a list of the forest firesfire_data=gov.query('mcp_forest_fires')FeaturesThepydatagovgrclient supports out-of-the-box all the things you know (and love), such as:authentication: properly handles the authentication to data.gov.gr - all you have to do is provide a valid token.persistent session: making several requests to data.gov.gr reuses the same underlying connection.timeout policy: informs data.gov.gr that it will await at most x seconds for a response for a given request.
Defaults to 60 sec.retry policy: to account for potential server failures of lossy network connections, client automatically retries
with an exponential-backoff, to avoid harming the data.gov.gr. Defaults to a maximum of 3 retries.Not-So-Quick UsageThe data.gov.gr API exposes, through itsapi/v1/queryGET endpoint, variousdatasetsfrom different topics.Thepydatagovgrclient thus provides a correspondingquerymethod, through which every available dataset can be obtained.
You can also pass additional arguments to filter the results accordingly.frompydatagovgrimportDataGovClientgov=DataGovClient(token='xoxb-1234-1243')# fetch the COVID-19 vaccination data for the 2021data=gov.query('mdg_emvolio',date_from='2021-01-01',date_to='2021-12-31')You can also use Python objects as arguments:importdatetimedata=gov.query('mdg_emvolio',date_from=datetime.date(2021,1,1),date_to=datetime.date(2021,12,31))Apart from the authentication token, you can also configure the timeout and retry policies of your client. For example:# this client will stop waiting for a response after 7 secondsgov=DataGovClient(token='xoxb-1234-1243',timeout=7)# this client will retry at most 3 times, with an exponential-backoff# (i.e. each retry waits exponentially longer before occurs: 1, 2, 4, 8, ...sec)gov=DataGovClient(token='xoxb-1234-1243',max_retries=3)# this client will respect both a timeout policy and a retry policygov=DataGovClient(token='xoxb-1234-1243',timeout=7,max_retries=3)Related Projectsgo-data-gov-gr-sdk: An SDK - written in Go - to access the data.gov.gr API.datagovgR: An R Wrapper Package for the data.gov.gr API.How to contributeIf you wish to contribute,thisis a great place to start!LicenseDistributed under theMIT License.AcknowledgementsAll rights are reserved by the officialhttps://data.gov.grsite, its developers, its maintainers and the
Hellenic Government.