List stations

Get Station List CLI

This script allows the user to get country's station information such as ID number and name from Dataex server. This tool can download output in either csv or json file or show it in tabular form.

Info

To get a list of country Id numbers, you can use dataex_list_country_info.py. This will help you know about the countries available in dataex.

Usage

$ dataex_obs_station_list.py --country_id <int> --not_empty --output_format <str> --output <str>

Tip

Option names too long, you can always use their short forms. Check using --help

Options

not_empty/empty   : flag to get only those stations with data or all 

output_format     : str
                    json, table or csv  

country_id        : int
                    country id     

output            : str
                    output filename

Each country has a number of stations with their own distinct id numbers. Using the empty/not_empty option, one can choose if they want to download information of only those stations with observations or all.

Info

The empty and non-empty options are boolean flags which can be enabled or disabled. empty is the default state.

Example

dataex_obs_station_list.py --country_id 3 --not_empty --output_format csv --output ./station_info.csv

This will download a list of observation stations and their related information for country with id number 3 and since output type is csv, the data will be stored in a csv file with name station_info.csv in the current directory. Since, non_empty flag is set, only those stations with observations are retrieved.