Intake Take2

Taking the pain out of data access and distribution

Intake is an open-source package to:

• describe your data declaratively

• gather data sets into catalogs

• search catalogs and services to find the right data you need

• load, transform and output data in many formats

• work with third party remote storage and compute platforms

This is the start of the documentation for the alpha version of Intake: Take2, a rewrite of Intake (henceforth referred to as legacy or V1). We will give an introduction to the ideas of Intake in general and specifically how to use this release. Go directly to the walkthrough and examples, or read the following motivation and declarations of scope.

• Scope
  • Motivation
  • Counter indications
  • What Intake Isn’t
  • Relationship to fsspec
  • Relationship to dask
  • Relationship to V1
• Walkthrough
  • Preamble
  • Simple Example
  • Slightly less Simple
  • Multiple Readers
  • Conversions
  • Complex Example
• Package Tour
  • intake.config
  • intake.readers.catalogs
  • intake.readers.convert
  • intake.readers.datatypes
  • intake.readers.entry
  • intake.readers.importlist
  • intake.readers.metadata
  • intake.readers.mixins
  • intake.readers.namespaces
  • intake.readers.output
  • intake.readers.readers
  • intake.readers.transform
  • intake.readers.user_parameters

Install

To install Intake Take2:

pip install --pre intake
or
pip install intake==2.0.0a2

This being an _alpha_ release, we would like as much feedback from the community as possible! Please leave issues and discussions on our repo page.