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- Login to CDS (or Login to ADS)
- Copy a 2 line code, which shows a url and your own uid:API key details as follows:
Create your key file in your home directory in your Terminal window as follows:
Code Block touch ~/.cdsapirc
- Edit your key file and paste the two lines you copied in Step 2 above to your .cdsapirc key file.
Install the CDS API client using pip, by running the following command in your Terminal window:
Code Block pip install cdsapi
- Once the CDS API client is installed, it can be used to request data from the datasets listed in the CDS and ADS catalogues. It is necessary to agree to the Terms of Use of every datasets that you intend to download. Attached to each dataset download form, the 'Show API request' button displays the python code to be used.
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