tradingeconomics 0.2.947

Library to download data from Trading Economics API

Install Python

If you don’t have a copy of Python installed on your computer, you can get it from:

• https://www.python.org/downloads/

It’s recomended to install pip, it is a package management system used to manage software packages written in Python.

You can find all information in:

• https://packaging.python.org/installing/

In Python (command line)

`python pip install tradingeconomics `

• There is a possibility to install package using easy_install

`python easy_install https://pypi.python.org/packages/4c/b4/e2e2a9668be305a42c0644b3eb5d4d1034ae062653ef737d7e80c1423d28/tradingeconomics-0.2.X.tar.gz ` Where ‘X’ type the last version number.

• As alternative you can download the package from:

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/tradingeconomics , and then follow the installation instructions for Python 3 -https://docs.python.org/3/install/)

or Python 2 - https://docs.python.org/2/install/

• Another method is to download the GitHub repo: https://github.com/ieconomics/open-api/tree/master/python

and place it in your Python library folder.

Starting the package

In command window type:

`python import tradingeconomics as te te.login('APIkey') `

• If you don’t have APIkey just left empty space in brackets.

• Note: Without APIkey datasets will default to returning sample data.

• Results are available in differente formats, such as : JSON, pandas.DataFrame or dictionary.

For example:

To get calendar data for specific country, in data frame format, just type:

`python te.getCalendarData(country = 'Italy', output_type = 'df') `