hubeau-data 0.1.0

Pythonic, typed, modern client for the Hubeau water data APIs.

hubeau-data

Typed, modern Python client for the Hub'Eau water data APIs.

Hub'Eau exposes 15+ REST APIs for French national water data — but no official typed Python client exists. This library fills that gap: Pydantic v2 models, strict typing, and a clean interface ready for data science workflows.

Quickstart

from hubeau_data.client import HubeauClient
from hubeau_data.models.hydrometrie import ObservationTrParams
from hubeau_data.models.qualite_rivieres import StationPcParams

client = HubeauClient()

# Hydrométrie — real-time observations
params = ObservationTrParams(code_station=["Y120201001"], size=3)
observations = client.hydrometrie.get_observations_tr(params=params)
print(observations[0].date_obs, observations[0].resultat_obs)

# Qualité Rivières — water quality stations
stations = client.qualite_rivieres.get_stations(
    params=StationPcParams(code_departement=["75"], size=3)
)
print(stations[0].code_station, stations[0].libelle_station)

# Eau potable — drinking water analyses for a commune
from hubeau_data.models.eau_potable import ResultatEauPotableParams
resultats = client.eau_potable.get_resultats_dis(
    params=ResultatEauPotableParams(code_commune=["75056"], size=5)
)
print(resultats[0].libelle_parametre, resultats[0].resultat_numerique)

# Phytopharmaceutiques — national pesticide sales
from hubeau_data.models.phytopharmaceutiques import VenteSubstanceParams
ventes = client.phytopharmaceutiques.get_ventes_substances(
    params=VenteSubstanceParams(type_territoire="National", size=5)
)
print(ventes[0].libelle_substance, ventes[0].quantite, ventes[0].annee)

# API health check — works on every API
report = client.hydrometrie.check_health(n_requests=3)
print(report.summary())

# Data coverage — spot-check stations
cov = client.hydrometrie.data_coverage(code_station="Y120201001")
print(cov.summary())

Async client

For bulk data collection — e.g. fetching many stations before inserting into a database — AsyncHubeauClient mirrors the sync client and supports asyncio.gather() for parallel requests:

import asyncio
from hubeau_data.async_client import AsyncHubeauClient
from hubeau_data.models.hydrometrie import ObservationTrParams

async def main():
    async with AsyncHubeauClient() as client:
        codes = ["Y120201001", "K418001001", "A1234567"]
        tasks = [
            client.hydrometrie.get_observations_tr(
                params=ObservationTrParams(code_station=[c], size=10)
            )
            for c in codes
        ]
        results = await asyncio.gather(*tasks)
        for code, obs in zip(codes, results):
            print(code, len(obs), "observations")

asyncio.run(main())

All 11 APIs are available on AsyncHubeauClient with the same method names as the sync client (get_sites, get_stations, etc.) — just await them. Retry logic (tenacity) applies to async requests too. check_health and data_coverage are sync-only (diagnostic tools, not bulk operations).

API Coverage

API	Status	Notes
Hydrométrie	✅ Supported	Sites, stations, real-time and elaborated observations
Qualité des cours d'eau	⚠️ Partial	Stations and analyses. Upstream API has known stability issues
Piézométrie	✅ Supported	Stations, chroniques, chroniques temps réel
Qualité des nappes	⚠️ Partial	Stations and analyses. Known 503/timeout issues
Écoulement	✅ Supported	Stations, observations, campaigns
Température	✅ Supported	Stations and chroniques
Prélèvements en eau	✅ Supported	Ouvrages, points de prélèvement, chroniques
Hydrobiologie	✅ Supported	Stations, indices (IBGN/IBMR/IBD/IPR), taxons
Poisson	✅ Supported	Stations, indicateurs IPR/IPR+, observations, operations
Qualité eau potable	✅ Supported	Communes/UDI links, analysis results
Phytopharmaceutiques	✅ Supported	Purchases and sales by substance and product
Surveillance Littoral	🚫 Skipped	API being decommissioned by Hub'Eau
Indicateurs Services	🚧 Maintenance	API under maintenance — see services.eaufrance.fr

All supported APIs expose check_health(n_requests) and data_coverage(...), and are available on both HubeauClient (sync) and AsyncHubeauClient (async, except health/coverage).

Features

• Pydantic v2 models for all responses — strict runtime validation, IDE autocomplete
• Typed query Params models for every endpoint — no more **kwargs
• Sync (HubeauClient) and async (AsyncHubeauClient) clients, same method names
• Automatic retry with exponential backoff (tenacity) on transient errors — Hub'Eau APIs have known stability issues
• check_health(n_requests) — latency stats per endpoint, healthy ratio
• data_coverage(...) — data availability windows per station or territory
• Optional extras: [dataframe], [geo], [viz] — install only what you need

Stack

• Python 3.13+, mypy --strict, ruff, uv, hatchling, src-layout
• httpx + tenacity for resilient sync/async HTTP
• pytest-httpx mocked test suite — CI runs without network dependency

Installation & Development

git clone https://github.com/pfei/hubeau-data.git
cd hubeau-data
uv sync                   # core only
uv sync --all-extras      # with pandas, geopandas, matplotlib

uv run ruff check .           # lint
uv run mypy .                 # type check
uv run pytest -m "not live"   # fast mocked tests (CI)
uv run pytest -m "live" -s    # real network integration tests

Examples & Scripts

uv run python examples/demo.py
uv run jupyter lab            # open examples/demo.ipynb

Health check scripts for every API under scripts/<api>/check_health.py:

uv run python scripts/hydrometrie/check_health.py --n-requests 3 --random
uv run python scripts/qualite_rivieres/check_health.py --n-requests 2
uv run python scripts/eau_potable/check_health.py --commune 75056
uv run python scripts/phytopharmaceutiques/check_health.py

Exploration scripts under scripts/qualite_rivieres/ and scripts/hydrometrie/.

Roadmap

• Full Hub'Eau API coverage (11 APIs implemented)
• check_health and data_coverage on all APIs
• Typed Params models for every endpoint
• Automatic retry with exponential backoff (tenacity)
• Async client (AsyncHubeauClient, all 11 APIs)
• Optional dependency groups — pandas, geopandas, matplotlib as extras
• CHANGELOG.md + CONTRIBUTING.md
• PyPI release

License

MIT © Pierre Feilles