ddbapi 0.1.1

Library for querying DDB infrastructure

Wrapper for the DDB API

• Query the DDB API for Newspapers
• returns a Pandas Dataframe Object

Usage:

from ddbapi import zp_api_call

df = zp_api_call(publication_date='[1600-09-01T12:00:00Z TO 1699-12-31T12:00:00Z]')
print(df)

Use any combination of these keyword arguments:

• plainpagefulltext: Search inside the OCR Fulltext (Use a list for multiple search-words)
• language: Use ISO Codes, currently ger, eng, fre, spa, ita
• place_of_distribution: Search inside "Verbreitungsort", use a list for multiple search-words
• publication_date: Get newspapers by publication date. Use the following format: 1900-12-31T12:00:00Z for a specific date, use square brackets and TO between two dates to get a daterange like so: publication_date='[1935-09-01T12:00:00Z TO 1935-09-22T12:00:00Z]' - time is always 12:00:00Z.
• zdb_id: Search by ZDB-ID
• provider: Search by Data Provider
• paper_title: Search inside the title of the Newspaper

Values of keyword arguments may contain lists to combine queries.