pygbif 0.1.4

Python client for GBIF

pygbif
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Python client for the `GBIF API
<http://www.gbif.org/developer/summary>`__.

`Source on GitHub at sckott/pygbif <https://github.com/sckott/pygbif>`__

Other GBIF clients:

* R: `rgbif`, `ropensci/rgbif <https://github.com/ropensci/rgbif>`__

Installation
============

Stable from pypi

.. code-block:: console

pip install pygbif

Development version

.. code-block:: console

[sudo] pip install git+git://github.com/sckott/pygbif.git#egg=pygbif

`pygbif` is split up into modules for each of the major groups of API methods.

* Registry - Datasets, Nodes, Installations, Networks, Organizations
* Species - Taxonomic names
* Occurrences - Occurrence data, including the download API

You can import the entire library, or each module individually as needed.

Note that `GBIF maps API <http://www.gbif.org/developer/maps>`__ is not included in `pygbif`.

Registry module
===============

.. code-block:: python

from pygbif import registry
registry.dataset_metrics(uuid='3f8a1297-3259-4700-91fc-acc4170b27ce')

Species module
===============

.. code-block:: python

from pygbif import species
species.name_suggest(q='Puma concolor')

Occurrences module
==================

.. code-block:: python

from pygbif import occurrences as occ
occ.search(taxonKey = 3329049)
occ.get(key = 252408386)
occ.count(isGeoreferenced = True)
occ.download_list(user = "sckott", limit = 5)
occ.download_meta(key = "0000099-140929101555934")
occ.download_get("0000066-140928181241064")


Meta
====

* License: MIT, see `LICENSE file <LICENSE>`__
* Please note that this project is released with a `Contributor Code of Conduct <CONDUCT.md>`__. By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.

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Changelog
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0.1.4 (2016-06-04)
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- Added variable types throughout docs
- Changed default `limit` value to 300 for `occurrences.search` method
- `tox` now included, via @xrotwang (#20)
- Added more registry methods (#11)
- Started occurrence download methods (#16
- Added more names methods (#18)
- All requests now send user-agent headers with `requests` and `pygbif` versions (#13)
- Bug fix for `occurrences.download_get` (#23)
- Fixed bad example for `occurrences.get` (#22)
- Fixed wheel to be universal for 2 and 3 (#10)
- Improved documentation a lot, autodoc methods now

0.1.1 (2015-11-03)
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- Fixed distribution for pypi

0.1.0 (2015-11-02)
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- First release