Purpose

The main purpose of Ipeadatapy package is to provide a way of extracting data from Ipeadata through Python using Ipeadata’s API. So, in this sense, Ipeadatapy is what is called an API wrapper. Nevertheless, the goal of the package is far from being only extract data. Ipeadatapy also is concerned with treating, cleaning and making more understandable the data provided by the API as well as providing data filtering and research mechanisms. Briefly, Ipeadatapy’s objective can be described as being to facilitate users to search and analyze time series data and metadata from Ipeadata database using Python.