CoCoRaHS-Download-Tool 0.0.2

Tool to download CoCoRaHS data.

Tool to download CoCoRaHS data.

Requirements

• Python >= 2.6

Installation

To get started using CoCoRaHS-Download-Tool simply install it with pip:

$ pip install CoCoRaHS-Download-Tool

Or, use pip locally with the .tar.gz distribution file:

$ pip install CoCoRaHS-Download-Tool-0.0.2.tar.gz

Usage

The CoCoRaHS-Download-Tool tool has two modes of operation, listing of CoCoRaHS station metadata, and listing of CoCoRaHS station data.

Stations Metadata

To list CoCoRaHS stations metadata for the default state (NM) the following command is issued:

$ python -m cocorahs_dlt stations

To save the output of this operation, run:

$ python -m cocorahs_dlt stations > stations.csv

To download and save CoCoRaHS stations metadata for a different state (specified by the two-character state code), the following command is issued:

$ python -m cocorahs_dlt --state CO stations > stations.csv

Stations Data

To list CoCoRaHS stations data for the default state (NM), the default date range (last three days), and the default output (CSV) the following command is issued:

$ python -m cocorahs_dlt data

To save the output of this operation, run:

$ python -m cocorahs_dlt data > data.csv

To download and save CoCoRaHS stations data for a different state (specified by the two-character state code), the following command is issued:

$ python -m cocorahs_dlt --state CO data > data.csv

To download and save CoCoRaHS stations data for a different state (specified by the two-character state code) and in a different output format, the following command is issued:

$ python -m cocorahs_dlt --state CO data --format XML > data.xml

To download and save CoCoRaHS stations data for a different state (specified by the two-character state code) in a different output format, and with volunteer comments, the following command is issued:

$ python -m cocorahs_dlt --state CO data --format XML --comments > data.xml

To download and save CoCoRaHS stations data for a different state (specified by the two-character state code) in a different output format, with volunteer comments, and for a different date range, the following command is issued:

$ python -m cocorahs_dlt --state CO data --format XML --comments --start_date 2014-09-13 --end_date 2014-09-21 > data.xml

To only list the data from the previous command, the > data.xml text is dropped:

$ python -m cocorahs_dlt --state CO data --format XML --comments --start_date 2014-09-13 --end_date 2014-09-21