odp-gent 1.0.0

Asynchronous Python client for the open datasets of Gent (Belgium).

About

A python package with which you can retrieve data from the Open Data Platform of Gent via their API. This package was initially created to only retrieve parking data from the API, but the code base is made in such a way that it is easy to extend for other datasets from the same platform.

Installation

pip install odp-gent

Datasets

You can read the following datasets with this package:

• Parking garages occupancy (12 locations)
• Park and Ride occupancy (5 locations)
• BlueBike rental locations (6 locations)
• Partago vehicle locations (116 locations)

Find here more information about the different variables and parameters per dataset with this python package.

Example

import asyncio

from odp_gent import ODPGent


async def main() -> None:
    """Show example on using the Open Data API client."""
    async with ODPGent() as client:
        garages = await client.garages(limit=12)
        park_and_rides = await client.park_and_rides(limit=5, gentse_feesten="True")
        print(garages)
        print(park_and_rides)


if __name__ == "__main__":
    asyncio.run(main())

You can find more code examples in the examples folder.

Use cases

NIPKaart.nl

A website that provides insight into where disabled parking spaces are, based on data from users and municipalities. Operates mainly in the Netherlands, but also has plans to process data from abroad.

Contributing

This is an active open-source project. We are always open to people who want to use the code or contribute to it.

We've set up a separate document for our contribution guidelines.

Thank you for being involved! 😍

Setting up development environment

The simplest way to begin is by utilizing the Dev Container feature of Visual Studio Code or by opening a CodeSpace directly on GitHub. By clicking the button below you immediately start a Dev Container in Visual Studio Code.

This Python project relies on uv as its dependency manager, providing comprehensive management and control over project dependencies.

You need at least:

• Python 3.12+
• uv

Installation

Install all packages, including all development requirements:

uv sync --locked

uv creates a project virtual environment in .venv and installs the locked dependencies.

Prek

This repository uses the prek framework, all changes are linted and tested with each commit. To setup the prek check, run:

uv run prek install

And to run all checks and tests manually, use the following command:

uv run prek run --all-files

Testing

It uses pytest as the test framework. To run the tests:

uv run pytest

To update the syrupy snapshot tests:

uv run pytest --snapshot-update

Source timestamps

Dates use Python's standard-library datetime; this package does not require pytz. BlueBike preserves the offset in last_seen instead of overwriting it with a Brussels timezone (which previously introduced a historical 18-minute offset). Partago preserves the UTC Z suffix and fractional seconds. Both reject timestamps without a timezone.

Complete parking feed

await client.parking_collection() retrieves every page of bezetting-parkeergarages-real-time and returns Collection(records, total_count, pages_fetched, complete). Its ParkingFacility records use the original fields.id as facility_id; the existing limited garages() API keeps its portal recordid behavior for compatibility. Pagination rejects missing/duplicate facility IDs, changing totals, short pages and safety-ceiling truncation (max_records=10000).

Measurements keep the source lastupdate timezone and general counts. Missing or invalid/undated times stay None, never the retrieval time; unknown counts/flags stay None, measured zero stays zero. The feed includes different parking types; consumers choose their own selection. The former separate P+R dataset returned 404 when checked on 2026-10-13; this method retrieves the current unified live feed instead.

License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2022-2026 Klaas Schoute

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