airbase package¶

class airbase.AirbaseClient(connect=True)[source]¶

Bases: object

The central point for requesting Airbase data.

Parameters:

connect (bool) – (optional) Immediately test network connection and download available countries and pollutants. If False, .connect() must be called before making data requests. Default True.

Example:

>>> client = AirbaseClient()
>>> r = client.request(["NL", "DE"], pl=["O3", "NO2"])
>>> r.download_to_directory("data/raw")
Generating CSV download links...
100%|██████████| 4/4 [00:09<00:00,  2.64s/it]
Generated 5164 CSV links ready for downloading
Downloading CSVs to data/raw...
100%|██████████| 5164/5164 [43:39<00:00,  1.95it/s]
>>> r.download_metadata("data/metadata.csv")
Writing metadata to data/metadata.csv...

all_countries¶: All countries available from AirBase.

all_pollutants¶: All pollutants available from AirBase.

connect(timeout=None)[source]¶

Download the available countries and pollutants for validation.

Parameters:	timeout (float) – Raise ConnectionError if the server takes longer than timeout seconds to respond.
Returns:	self

static download_metadata(filepath, verbose=True)[source]¶

Download the metadata file.

See http://discomap.eea.europa.eu/map/fme/AirQualityExport.htm.

Parameters:	filepath (str) – verbose (bool) –

pollutants_per_country¶: The pollutants available in each country from AirBase.

request(country=None, pl=None, shortpl=None, year_from='2013', year_to='2022', source='All', update_date=None, verbose=True, preload_csv_links=False)[source]¶

Initialize an AirbaseRequest for a query.

Pollutants can be specified either by name (pl) or by code (shortpl). If no pollutants are specified, data for all available pollutants will be requested. If a pollutant is not available for a country, then we simply do not try to download those CSVs.

Requests proceed in two steps: First, links to inividual CSVs are requested from the Airbase server. Then these links are used to download the individual CSVs.

See http://discomap.eea.europa.eu/map/fme/AirQualityExport.htm.

Return AirbaseRequest:
Parameters:	country (str\|list) – (optional), 2-letter country code or a list of them. If a list, data will be requested for each country. Will raise ValueError if a country is not available on the server. If None, data for all countries will be requested. See self.all_countries. pl (str\|list) – (optional) The pollutant(s) to request data for. Must be one of the pollutants in self.all_pollutants. Cannot be used in conjunction with shortpl. shortpl (str\|list) – (optional). The pollutant code(s) to request data for. Will be applied to each country requested. Cannot be used in conjunction with pl. year_from (str) – (optional) The first year of data. Can not be earlier than 2013. Default 2013. year_to (str) – (optional) The last year of data. Can not be later than the current year. Default <current year>. source (str) – (optional) One of “E1a”, “E2a” or “All”. E2a (UTD) data are only available for years where E1a data have not yet been delivered (this will normally be the most recent year). Default “All”. update_date (str\|datetime) – (optional). Format “yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss”. To be used when only files created or updated after a certain date is of interest. verbose (bool) – (optional) print status messages to stderr. Default True. preload_csv_links (bool) – (optional) Request all the csv download links from the Airbase server at object initialization. Default False.
	The initialized AirbaseRequest.
Example:	>>> client = AirbaseClient() >>> r = client.request(["NL", "DE"], pl=["O3", "NO2"]) >>> r.download_to_directory("data/raw") Generating CSV download links... 100%\|██████████\| 4/4 [00:09<00:00, 2.64s/it] Generated 5164 CSV links ready for downloading Downloading CSVs to data/raw... 100%\|██████████\| 5164/5164 [43:39<00:00, 1.95it/s] >>> r.download_metadata("data/metadata.csv") Writing metadata to data/metadata.csv...

search_pollutant(query, limit=None)[source]¶

Search for a pollutant’s shortpl number based on its name.

Return list[dict]:
Parameters:	query (str) – The pollutant to search for. limit (int) – (optional) Max number of results.
	The best pollutant matches. Pollutants are dicts with keys “pl” and “shortpl”.
Example:	>>> AirbaseClient().search_pollutant("o3", limit=2) >>> [{"pl": "O3", "shortpl": "7"}, {"pl": "NO3", "shortpl": "46"}]

class airbase.AirbaseRequest(country=None, shortpl=None, year_from='2013', year_to='2022', source='All', update_date=None, verbose=True, preload_csv_links=False)[source]¶

Bases: object

Handler for Airbase data requests.

Requests proceed in two steps: First, links to inividual CSVs are requested from the Airbase server. Then these links are used to download the individual CSVs.

See http://discomap.eea.europa.eu/map/fme/AirQualityExport.htm.

Parameters:

country (str|list) – 2-letter country code or a list of them. If a list, data will be requested for each country.
shortpl (str|list) – (optional). The pollutant code to request data for. Will be applied to each country requested. If None, all available pollutants will be requested. If a pollutant is not available for a country, then we simply do not try to download those CSVs.
year_from (str) – (optional) The first year of data. Can not be earlier than 2013. Default 2013.
year_to (str) – (optional) The last year of data. Can not be later than the current year. Default <current year>.
source (str) – (optional) One of “E1a”, “E2a” or “All”. E2a (UTD) data are only available for years where E1a data have not yet been delivered (this will normally be the most recent year). Default “All”.
update_date (str|datetime) – (optional). Format “yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss”. To be used when only files created or updated after a certain date is of interest.
verbose (bool) – (optional) print status messages to stderr. Default True.
preload_csv_links (bool) – (optional) Request all the csv download links from the Airbase server at object initialization. Default False.

download_metadata(filepath)[source]¶

Download the metadata TSV file.

See http://discomap.eea.europa.eu/map/fme/AirQualityExport.htm.

Parameters:	filepath (str) – Where to save the TSV

download_to_directory(dir, skip_existing=True, raise_for_status=True)[source]¶

Download into a directory, preserving original file structure.

Parameters:	dir (str) – The directory to save files in (must exist) skip_existing (bool) – (optional) Don’t re-download files if they exist in dir. If False, existing files in dir may be overwritten. Default True. raise_for_status (bool) – (optional) Raise exceptions if download links return “bad” HTTP status codes. If False, a warning will be printed instead. Default True.
Returns:	self

download_to_file(filepath, raise_for_status=True)[source]¶

Download data into one large CSV.

Directory where the new CSV will be created must exist.

Parameters:	filepath (str) – The path to the new CSV. raise_for_status (bool) – (optional) Raise exceptions if download links return “bad” HTTP status codes. If False, a warning will be printed instead. Default True.
Returns:	self

Submodules¶

airbase.resources module¶

Global variables for URL templating

airbase.util module¶

Utility functions for processing the raw Portal responses, url templating, etc.

airbase.util.countries_from_summary(summary)[source]¶

Get the list of unique countries from the summary.

Return list[str]:
Parameters:	summary (list[dict]) – The E1a summary.
	The available countries.

airbase.util.extract_csv_links(text)[source]¶: Get a list of csv links from the download link response text

airbase.util.link_list_url(country, shortpl=None, year_from='2013', year_to='2022', source='All', update_date=None)[source]¶

Generate the URL where the download links for a query can be found.

Parameters:

country (str) – The 2-letter country code. See AirbaseClient.countries for options.
shortpl (str) – (optional) The pollutant number. Leave blank to get all pollutants. See AirbaseClient.pollutants_per_country for options.
year_from (str) – (optional) The first year of data. Can not be earlier than 2013. Default 2013.
year_to (str) – (optional) The last year of data. Can not be later than the current year. Default <current year>.
source (str) – (optional) One of “E1a”, “E2a” or “All”. E2a (UTD) data are only available for years where E1a data have not yet been delivered (this will normally be the most recent year). Default “All”.
update_date (str|datetime) – (optional). Format “yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss”. To be used when only files created or updated after a certain date is of interest.

Return str:

The URL which will yield the list of relevant CSV download links.

airbase.util.pollutants_from_summary(summary)[source]¶

Get the list of unique pollutants from the summary.

Parameters:	summary (list[dict]) – The E1a summary.
Return dict:	The available pollutants, with name (“pl”) as key and pollutant number (“shortpl”) as value.

airbase.util.pollutants_per_country(summary)[source]¶

Get the available pollutants per country from the summary.

Return dict[list[dict]]:
Parameters:	summary (list[dict]) – The E1a summary.
	All available pollutants per country.

airbase.util.string_safe_list(obj)[source]¶

Turn an (iterable) object into a list. If it is a string or not iterable, put the whole object into a list of length 1.

Parameters:	obj –
Return list: