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<p class="MsoNormal">I would like to announce the first alpha release of esgf-pyclient: A python interface to the ESGF Search API.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Although still in development the library is already useful for finding ESGF data, including download URLs, OPeNDAP URLs, filenames, sizes and checksums.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">- Download fromhttp://pypi.python.org/pypi/esgf-pyclient<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- See the documentation at http://esgf-pyclient.readthedocs.org<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Follow development at http://github.com/stephenpascoe/esgf-pyclient<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For a quick start try:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">$ pip install esgf-pyclient<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">$ python<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">>>> from pyesgf.search import SearchConnection<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">>>> conn = SearchConnection('http://pcmdi9.llnl.gov/esg-search/search', distrib=True)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">>>> ctx = conn.new_context(project='CMIP5', query='humidity', experiment_family='RCP')<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">>>> ctx.hit_count<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1927<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">>>> ctx.search()[0].dataset_id<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">u'cmip5.output1.NASA-GISS.GISS-E2-R.rcp45.day.atmos.day.r6i1p1.v20120516|esgdata1.nccs.nasa.gov'<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Find further examples in the documentation.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Stephen.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas">---<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas">Stephen Pascoe +44 (0)1235 445980<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas">Centre of Environmental Data Archival<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas">STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Oxford, Didcot OX11 0QX, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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