Rice VPAA SDK

Internal SDK for accessing the Rice VPAA API. Requires an API key.

Install

pip install rice-vpaa-sdk

Documentation

Full Swagger API documentation is available here.

Usage

from rice_vpaa import VPAAClient
client = VPAAClient(api_key="your-api-key")

Get Faculty

faculty = client.get_faculty(
    unit_ids=[123],
    tenure_statuses=["TTT"],
    employment_statuses=["Full Time"]
)

Get Divisions

divisions = client.get_divisions(departments_only=True)

Get Open Positions

positions = client.get_open_positions()

Data Lagoon

The DataLagoon class is a convenience class for accessing data from the VPAA data lagoon.

DataLagoon depends on the following environment variables:

• S3_REGION
• S3_BUCKET
• S3_ENDPOINT
• S3_KEY
• S3_SECRET

data_lagoon = DataLagoon()
data_lagoon.read_parquet("path/to/file.parquet")
data_lagoon.write_parquet(<a pandas dataframe>, "path/to/file.parquet")
data_lagoon.list_files("path/to/directory")
data_lagoon.get_metadata("path/to/file.parquet")