EDICTOR

The EDICTOR application is an online tool for creating, maintaining, and publishing etymological data which is stored in simple TSV format. This TSV format can be accessed in a somewhat configurable way via HTTP URLs.

collabutils.edictor.fetch(dataset, remote_dbase=None, concepts=None, languages=None, columns=None, base_url='http://lingulist.de/edictor', out=None)[source]

Retrieve the TSV data file for a dataset curated with EDICTOR.

Parameters
  • dataset (str) – Name of the dataset in EDICTOR

  • remote_dbase (typing.Optional[str]) – Name of the database file on EDICTOR (if different than dataset name)

  • concepts (typing.Optional[typing.List[str]]) – List of concepts to include in the download (defaults to all)

  • languages (typing.Optional[typing.List[str]]) – List of languages to include in the download (defaults to all)

  • columns (typing.Optional[typing.List[str]]) – List of columns to include in the download (defaults to all)

  • base_url (str) –

  • out (typing.Union[pathlib.Path, str, None]) – Path to which to save the data (defaults to ‘./<dataset>.tsv’)

Returns