🌬 AirBase
An easy downloader for the AirBase air quality data.
AirBase is an air quality database provided by the European Environment Agency (EEA). The data is available for download at the portal, but the interface makes it a bit time consuming to do bulk downloads. Hence, an easy Python-based interface.
Read the full documentation at https://airbase.readthedocs.io.
🔌 Installation
To install airbase, simply run
$ pip install airbase
🚀 Getting Started
>>> import airbase
>>> client = airbase.AirbaseClient()
>>> client.all_countries
['GR', 'ES', 'IS', 'CY', 'NL', 'AT', 'LV', 'BE', 'CH', 'EE', 'FR', 'DE', ...
>>> client.all_pollutants
{'k': 412, 'CO': 10, 'NO': 38, 'O3': 7, 'As': 2018, 'Cd': 2014, ...
>>> client.pollutants_per_country
{'AD': [{'pl': 'CO', 'shortpl': 10}, {'pl': 'NO', 'shortpl': 38}, ...
>>> client.search_pollutant("O3")
[{'pl': 'O3', 'shortpl': 7}, {'pl': 'NO3', 'shortpl': 46}, ...>>> r = client.request(country=["NL", "DE"], pl="NO3", year_from=2015)
>>> r.download_to_directory(dir="data", skip_existing=True)
Generating CSV download links...
100%|██████████| 2/2 [00:03<00:00, 2.03s/it]
Generated 12 CSV links ready for downloading
Downloading CSVs to data...
100%|██████████| 12/12 [00:01<00:00, 8.44it/s]>>> r = client.request(country="FR", pl=["O3", "PM10"], year_to=2014)
>>> r.download_to_file("data/raw.csv")
Generating CSV download links...
100%|██████████| 2/2 [00:12<00:00, 7.40s/it]
Generated 2,029 CSV links ready for downloading
Writing data to data/raw.csv...
100%|██████████| 2029/2029 [31:23<00:00, 1.04it/s]>>> r = client.request()
>>> r.download_to_directory("data")
Generating CSV download links...
100%|██████████| 40/40 [03:38<00:00, 2.29s/it]
Generated 146,993 CSV links ready for downloading
Downloading CSVs to data...
0%| | 299/146993 [01:50<17:15:06, 2.36it/s]>>> client.download_metadata("data/metadata.tsv")
Writing metadata to data/metadata.tsv...
🚆 Command line interface
$ airbase download --help
Usage: airbase download [OPTIONS]
Download all pollutants for all countries
The -c/--country and -p/--pollutant allow to specify which data to download, e.g.
- download only Norwegian, Danish and Finish sites
airbase download -c NO -c DK -c FI
- download only SO2, PM10 and PM2.5 observations
airbase download -p SO2 -p PM10 -p PM2.5
Options:
-c, --country [AD|AL|AT|...]
-p, --pollutant [k|CO|NO|...]
--path PATH [default: data]
--year INTEGER [default: 2022]
-O, --overwrite Re-download existing files.
-q, --quiet No progress-bar.
--help Show this message and exit.
🛣 Roadmap
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Parallel CSV downloadsContributed by @avaldebe -
CLI to avoid using Python all togetherContributed by @avaldebe - Data wrangling module for AirBase output data
