KoladaPy

A comprehensive Python wrapper for the Kolada API v3, providing access to Swedish municipality data.

Note: This is an independent project and is not associated with Kolada.

About Kolada

Kolada is a database containing key performance indicators (KPIs) for Swedish municipalities and regions. This wrapper provides a simple interface to search for KPIs, download data, and work with the results in Pandas DataFrames.

Features

• Search for KPIs with flexible filtering options
• Access metadata for KPIs, municipalities, and organizational units
• Download data with customizable parameters
• Convert results to Pandas DataFrames for easy analysis
• Automatic handling of pagination, validation and rate limits
• Support for all API endpoints including data for different regions and organizational units

Requirements

• Python 3.7 or higher
• Dependencies:
  • requests>=2.25.0
  • pandas>=1.1.0
  • tqdm>=4.50.0
  • backoff>=1.10.0

Installation

pip install koladapy

Quick Start

Visit the tutorials folder for a basic usage guide.

from koladapy import KoladaAPI

# Initialize the client
kolada = KoladaAPI()

# Search for KPIs related to school
kpis = kolada.search_kpis("skola")
print(f"Found {len(kpis)} KPIs related to 'skola'")

# Get a specific KPI by ID
kpi = kolada.get_kpi("N15033")  # Pupils/teacher in primary school
print(f"KPI title: {kpi['title']}")

# Get the same data as a pandas DataFrame
df = kolada.get_data_as_dataframe(
    kpi_id="N15033", 
    municipality_id="0180", # Stockholm municipality
    years=[2020, 2021]
)
print(df.head())

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.

• Submit suggestions and report bugs
• Open a Pull Request
• Star the GitHub page

Resources

• Kolada API v3 documentation

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

Acknowledgements

This project uses the following open source packages:

• requests
• pandas
• tqdm
• backoff

The full license texts are available in the LICENSES directory.