cloudnet-api-client 0.2.1

Cloudnet API client

Cloudnet API client

Official Python client for the Cloudnet data portal API.

Installation

python3 -m pip install cloudnet-api-client

Quickstart

import cloudnet_api_client as cac

client = cac.APIClient()

sites = client.sites(type="cloudnet")
products = client.products()

metadata = client.metadata("hyytiala", "2021-01-01", product=["mwr", "radar"])
cac.download(metadata, "data/")

raw_metadata = client.raw_metadata("granada", date="2024-01", instrument_id="parsivel")
cac.download(raw_metadata, "data_raw/")

Documentation

APIClient().metadata() and raw_metadata() → list[Metadata]

Fetch product and raw file metadata from the Cloudnet data portal.

Parameters:

name	type	default	example
site_id	str		"hyytiala"
date	str or date	None	"2024-01-01"
date_from	str or date	None	"2025-01-01"
date_to	str or date	None	"2025-01-01"
updated_at	str, date or datetime	None	"2025-01-01T12:00:00"
updated_at_from	str, date or datetime	None	"2025-01-01T12:00:00"
updated_at_to	str, date or datetime	None	"2025-01-01T12:00:00"
instrument_id	str or list[str]	None	"rpg-fmcw-94"
instrument_pid	str or list[str]	None	"https://hdl.handle.net/21.12132/3.191564170f8a4686"
product*	str or list[str]	None	"classification"
show_legacy*	bool	False

* = only in metadata()

Date Handling

The date, date_from and date_to parameters support:

• "YYYY-MM-DD" — a specific date
• "YYYY-MM" — the entire month
• "YYYY" — the entire year
• Or directly as datetime.date object

In addition to these, the updated_at, updated_at_from and updated_at_to parameters support:

• "YYYY-MM-DDTHH" — a specific hour
• "YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM" — a specific minute
• "YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS" — a specific second
• "YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.FFFFFF" — a specific microsecond
• Or directly as datetime.datetime object

Return value

Both methods return a list of dataclass instances, ProductMetadata and RawMetadata, respectively.

APIClient().filter(list[Metadata]) → list[Metadata]

Additional filtering of fetched metadata.

Parameters:

name	type	default
metadata	list[RawMetadata] or list[ProductMetadata]
include_pattern	str	None
exclude_pattern	str	None
filename_prefix	str	None
filename_suffix	str	None
include_tag_subset	set[str]	None
exclude_tag_subset	set[str]	None

APIClient().sites() → list[Site]

Fetch cloudnet sites.

Parameters:

name	type	Choices	default
type	str or list[str]	"cloudnet", "campaign", "model", "hidden"	None

APIClient().products() → list[Product]

Fetch cloudnet products.

Parameters:

name	type	Choices	default
type	str or list[str]	"instrument", "geophysical", "evaluation"	None

APIClient().instruments() → list[Instrument]

Fetch cloudnet instruments.

cloudnet_api_client.download(list[Metadata]) → list[Path]

Download files from the fetched metadata.

Parameters:

name	type	default
metadata	list[RawMetadata] or list[ProductMetadata]
output_directory	PathLike or str
concurrency_limit	int	5
progress	bool or None	None

There's also an asynchronous version of this function: cloudnet_api_client.adownload. It's useful for usage inside Jupyter notebook.

License

MIT