Get-Popular-Datasets

This repository contains a script that downloads popular datasets from the CKAN portal.

Requirements

• Python 3.6 or higher
• requests

Installation

pip install requests

Usage

python get_popular_datasets.py

Configuration

You can configure the script by changing the values in the config.ini file.

[default]
url = https://catalog.data.gov   # The URL of the CKAN portal.
rows = 100                       # The number of datasets to search for.
output_file = output.csv         # The name of the output file.
organization = org_name          # The name of the organization to search for.

Report

The script generates a CSV file with the following columns:

• organization
• title
• url
• metadata_created
• metadata_modified
• total number of views