Usage Guide

This module is a thin wrapper around Enverus Drillinginfo’s Developer API (formerly known as Direct Access). It handles authentication and token management, pagination and network-related error handling/retries. It also provides a simple, convenient method to write results to CSV.

direct-access-py is built and tested on Python 3.6 but should work on Python 2.7 and up.

Installation

The easiest way to install direct-access-py is from the Python Package Index using pip:

$ pip install directaccess

To install it manually, simply download the repository from Github:

$ git clone https://github.com/wchatx/direct-access-py.git
$ cd directaccess/
$ python setup.py install

Notes

The directaccess module only supports the JSON format from the API. The query method returns a generator of API responses as dictionaries.

Version 2 of the API uses “soft deletes”. Records marked as deleted will have a populated DeletedDate field. If these records are not important for your workflow, you should always provide deleteddate='null' as a keyword argument to the V2 query method

It is also important to note that your API credentials should be treated like any other password. Take care to not check them into public code repositories or expose them outside of your organization.

If you find a problem with this module, have a feature request or just need a little help getting started, please open an issue! If you’re having trouble with the Enverus Drillinginfo Developer API, you should contact support.

Quick Start

Direct Access Version 1

For version 1 of the API, create an instance of the DirectAccessV1 class and provide it your API key

from directaccess import DirectAccessV1

d1 = DirectAccessV1(api_key='your-api-key')

Warning

Direct Access Version 1 will reach the end of its life in July, 2020. Please upgrade your application as Version 1 will be inaccessible after that date. A future version of this module will drop support for Version 1.

Provide the query method the dataset as the first argument and any query parameters as keyword arguments. See valid dataset names and query params in the Direct Access documentation. The query method returns a generator of API responses as dicts.

for row in d1.query('legal-leases', county_parish='Reeves', state_province='TX'):
    print(row)

Direct Access Version 2

For version 2 of the API, create an instance of the DirectAccessV2 class, providing it your API key, client id and client secret. The returned access token will be available as an attribute on the instance (d2.access_token) and the Authorization header is set automatically

from directaccess import DirectAccessV2

d2 = DirectAccessV2(
    api_key='your-api-key',
    client_id='your-client-id',
    client_secret='your-client-secret',
)

Like with the V1 class, provide the query method the dataset and query params. All query parameters must match the valid parameters found in the Direct Access documentation and be passed as keyword arguments.

for row in d2.query('well-origins', county='REEVES', pagesize=10000):
    print(row)

Version 2 Concepts

Filter Functions

Direct Access version 2 supports filter functions. These can be passed as strings on the keyword arguments.

Some common filters are greater than (gt()), less than (lt()), null, not null (not(null)) and between (btw()). See the Direct Access documentation for a list of all available filters.

# Get well records updated after 2018-08-01 and without deleted dates
for row in d2.query('well-origins', updateddate='gt(2018-08-01)', deleteddate='null'):
    print(row)

# Get permit records with approved dates between 2018-03-01 and 2018-06-01
for row in d2.query('permits', approveddate='btw(2018-03-01,2018-06-01)'):
    print(row)

Fields keyword

You can use the fields keyword to limit the returned fields in your queries. This has the benefit of limiting the API responses to only those fields needed for your workflow and will significantly improve the speed of your queries.

for row in d2.query('rigs', fields='DrillType,LeaseName,PermitDepth'):
    print(row)

Escaping

When making requests containing certain characters like commas, use a backslash to escape them.

# Escaping the comma before LLC
for row in d2.query('producing-entities', curropername='PERCUSSION PETROLEUM OPERATING\, LLC'):
    print(row)