Remote Tutorial

You can read files remotely with Frictionless. This is a basic functionality of Frictionless.

Reading Data

You can read using Package/Resource, for example:

Python

from pprint import pprint

from frictionless import Resource

resource = Resource(path='https://raw.githubusercontent.com/frictionlessdata/frictionless-py/master/data/table.csv')

pprint(resource.read_rows())

[{'id': 1, 'name': 'english'}, {'id': 2, 'name': '中国人'}]

Writing Data

A similar approach can be used for writing:

Python

from frictionless import Resource

resource = Resource(path='data/table.csv')

resource.write('https://example.com/data/table.csv') # will POST the file to the server

Configuring Data

There is a Control to configure remote data, for example:

Python

from frictionless import Resource

from frictionless.plugins.remote import RemoteControl

control = RemoteControl(http_timeout=10)

resource = Resource(path='https://raw.githubusercontent.com/frictionlessdata/frictionless-py/master/data/table.csv', control=control)

print(resource.to_view())

+----+-----------+

| id | name |

+====+===========+

| 1 | 'english' |

+----+-----------+

| 2 | '中国人' |

+----+-----------+

References:

• Remote Control