A Python API for childes-db

The childespy package allows you to access data in the childes-db from Python. This removes the need to write complex SQL queries in order to get the information you want from the database.

This package is a wrapper for the latest version of the childesr R package (https://github.com/langcog/childesr), so it requires the user to install R (>=3.6) on their machine. Instructions can be found here: https://www.r-project.org/.

childesr has R package dependencies, listed here, which childespy will automatically install.

Import with pip

This package is available through pip with pip3 install childespy and can be run with import childespy.

Pypi link: https://pypi.org/project/childespy/

Other relevant GitHub repositories:

• Website frontend: http://github.com/langcog/childes-db-website
• Interactive data visualizations: https://github.com/langcog/childes-db-shiny