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Thredds catalog client

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Thredds Client for Python
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Installing Thredds Client
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Anaconda
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|Version| |Downloads|

Thredds client is available as Anaconda package. Install it with the
following command:

.. code:: bash

$ conda install -c birdhouse -c conda-forge threddsclient

From github
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Check out code from the birdy GitHub repo and start the installation:

.. code:: bash

$ git clone https://github.com/bird-house/threddsclient.git
$ cd threddsclient
$ conda env create -f environment.yml
$ source activate threddsclient
$ python setup.py develop

Using Thredds Client
====================

Read the Thredds tutorial on catalogs: `Thredds Catalog
Primer <http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/thredds/current/tds/tutorial/CatalogPrimer.html>`__

Get download URLs of a catalog
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.. code:: python

import threddsclient
urls = threddsclient.download_urls('http://example.com/thredds/catalog.xml')

Get OpenDAP URLs of a catalog
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.. code:: python

import threddsclient
urls = threddsclient.opendap_urls('http://example.com/thredds/catalog.xml')

Navigate in catalog
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Start reading a catalog

.. code:: python

import threddsclient
cat = threddsclient.read_url('http://example.com/thredds/catalog.xml')

Get a list of references to other catalogs & follow them

.. code:: python

refs = cat.references

print refs[0].name
cat2 = refs[0].follow()

Get a list of datasets in this catalog

.. code:: python

data = cat.datasets

Get flat list of all direct datasets (data files) in the catalog

.. code:: python

datasets = cat.flat_datasets()

Get flat list of all references in the catalog

.. code:: python

references = cat.flat_references()

Crawl thredds catalog
---------------------

Crawl recursive all direct datasets in catalog following the catalog
references. Stop recusion at a given depth level.

.. code:: python

import threddsclient
for ds in threddsclient.crawl('http://example.com/thredds/catalog.xml', depth=2):
print ds.name

Development
===========

Install sources
===============

Check out code from the birdy GitHub repo and start the installation:

.. code-block:: sh

$ git clone https://github.com/bird-house/threddsclient.git
$ cd threddsclient
$ conda env create -f environment.yml
$ python setup.py develop

Install additional dependencies::

$ conda install pytest flake8 sphinx bumpversion
OR
$ pip install -r requirements_dev.txt

Bump a new version
===================

Make a new version of Birdy in the following steps:

* Make sure everything is commit to GitHub.
* Update ``CHANGES.rst`` with the next version.
* Dry Run: ``bumpversion --dry-run --verbose --new-version 0.3.4 patch``
* Do it: ``bumpversion --new-version 0.3.4 patch``
* ... or: ``bumpversion --new-version 0.4.0 minor``
* Push it: ``git push --tags``

See the bumpversion_ documentation for details.

.. _bumpversion: https://pypi-hypernode.com/project/bumpversion/

Examples with IPython Notebook
==============================

- `NOAA Thredds
Catalog <http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/bird-house/threddsclient/blob/master/examples/noaa_example.ipynb>`__

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Authors
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* Scott Wales scott.wales@unimelb.edu.au
* Carsten Ehbrecht ehbrecht@dkrz.de

Changes
*******

0.3.5 (2018-10-05)
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* support for Python 3.x (#1)

0.3.4 (2015-10-25)
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* fixed travis build/tests
* updated docs

0.3.3 (2015-10-24)
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* converted docs to rst.
* MANIFEST.in added.

0.3.2 (2015-07-15)
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* append catalog.xml to catalog url if missing
* crawl method added

0.3.1 (2015-06-14)
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* fixed catalog.follow()
* using dataset.download_url()
* added ipython example
* cleaned up Readme

0.3.0 (2015-06-13)
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* Refactored
* added catalog.opendap_urls()

0.2.0 (2015-06-08)
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* Refactored
* using CollectionDataset
* added catalog.download_urls()

0.1.1 (2015-06-05)
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* Fixed catalog generation.
* added pytest dependency.

0.1.0 (2015-03-13)
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* Version by https://github.com/ScottWales/threddsclient.

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