# obspy.clients.fdsn.client.Client

class `Client`(base_url='IRIS', major_versions=None, user=None, password=None, user_agent='ObsPy/1.1.1 (Linux-2.6.32-042stab134.8-i686-with-debian-wheezy-sid, Python 3.4.4)', debug=False, timeout=120, service_mappings=None, force_redirect=False, eida_token=None)

  Bases: `builtins.object`

  FDSN Web service request client.

  For details see the `__init__()` method.

  Attributes

  `RE_HEX4` | str(object=’‘) -> str
  `RE_IPv4` | str(object=’‘) -> str
  `RE_IPv6` | str(object=’‘) -> str
  `RE_UINT8` | str(object=’‘) -> str
  `URL_REGEX` | str(object=’‘) -> str
  `__dict__` |
  `__doc__` | str(object=’‘) -> str
  `__module__` | str(object=’‘) -> str
  `__weakref__` | list of weak references to the object (if defined)

  Public Methods

  `get_events` | Query the event service of the client.
  `get_stations` | Query the station service of the FDSN client.
  `get_stations_bulk` | Query the station service of the client.
  `get_waveforms` | Query the dataselect service of the client.
  `get_waveforms_bulk` | Query the dataselect service of the client.
  `get_webservice_version` | Get full version information of webservice (as a tuple of ints).
  `help` | Print a more extensive help for a given service.
  `set_credentials` | Set user and password resulting in subsequent web service requests for waveforms being authenticated for potential access to restricted data.
  `set_eida_token` | Fetch user and password from the server using the provided token, resulting in subsequent web service requests for waveforms being authenticated for potential access to restricted data.

  Private Methods

  Warning

  Private methods are mainly for internal/developer use and their API might change without notice.

  `_attach_dataselect_url_to_stream` | Attaches the actually used dataselet URL to each Trace.
  `_attach_responses` | Helper method to fetch response via get_stations() and attach it to
  `_build_url` | Builds the correct URL.
  `_create_url_from_parameters` |
  `_discover_services` | Automatically discovers available services.
  `_download` |
  `_get_webservice_versionstring` | Get full version information of webservice as a string.
  `_repr_pretty_` |
  `_resolve_eida_token` | Use the token to get credentials.
  `_set_opener` |
  `_validate_base_url` |
  `_write_to_file_object` |

  Special Methods

  `__dir__` | default dir() implementation
  `__format__` | default object formatter
  `__init__` | Initializes an FDSN Web Service client.
  `__new__` | Create and return a new object.
  `__reduce__` | helper for pickle
  `__reduce_ex__` | helper for pickle
  `__sizeof__` | size of object in memory, in bytes
  `__str__` |
  `__subclasshook__` | Abstract classes can override this to customize issubclass().

### Thank you!

We would like to thank our contributors, whose efforts make this software what it is. These people have helped by writing code and documentation, and by testing. They have created and maintained this product, its associated libraries and applications, our build tools and our web sites.

#### Contributors

- Ackerley, Nick
- Allgeyer, Sebastien
- Ammon, Charles J.
- Antunes, Emanuel
- Arnarsson, Ólafur St.
- Bank, Markus
- Barsch, Robert
- Behr, Yannik
- Bernardi, Fabrizio
- Bernauer, Felix
- Bes de Berc, Maxime
- Beyreuther, Moritz
- Boltz, Shawn
- Bonaimé, Sébastien
- Carothers, Lloyd
- Chamberlain, Calum
- Chambers, Derrick
- Chen, Zhao
- Clark, Adam
- Danecek, Peter
- Egdorf, Sven
- Engels, Fabian
- Ermert, Laura
- Eulenfeld, Tom

- Fabbri, Tommaso
- Falco, Nicholas
- Fee, Jeremy
- Grellier, Clément
- Grunberg, Marc
- Hammer, Conny
- Heimann, Sebastian
- Heiniger, Lukas
- Hope, Gaute
- Igel, Heiner
- Inza, Adolfo
- Isken, Marius
- Ketchum, David
- Koymans, Mathijs
- Kremers, Simon
- Kress, Victor
- Krieger, Lars
- Krischer, Lion
- Kula, Damian
- Käufl, Paul
- Köhler, Andreas
- Lecocq, Thomas
- Leeman, John
- Legovini, Paride

- Lesage, Philippe
- Li, Yulin
- Lomax, Anthony
- Lopes, Rui L.
- MacCarthy, Jonathan
- Maggi, Alessia
- Martin, Henri
- Medlin, Andrew
- Megies, Tobias
- Meschede, Matthias
- Michelini, Alberto
- Miller, Nathaniel C.
- Morgenstern, Bernhard
- Nof, Ran Novitsky
- Panning, Mark P.
- Parker, Tom
- Pestourie, Romain
- Rapagnani, Giovanni
- Reyes, Celso
- Ringler, Adam
- Rothenhäusler, Nicolas
- Russo, Emiliano
- Sales de Andrade, Elliott

- Satriano, Claudio
- Saul, Joachim
- Scheingraber, Chris
- Schneider, Simon
- Sippl, Christian
- Snoke, Arthur
- Stange, Stefan
- Stähler, Simon C.
- Sullivan, Benjamin
- Tian, Dongdong
- Trabant, Chad
- Trani, Luca
- Uieda, Leonardo
- Walker, Andrew
- Walther, Marcus
- Wassermann, Joachim
- Williams, Mark C.
- Winkelman, Andrew
- Zaccarelli, Riccardo
- Zad, Seyed Kasra Hosseini
- Zhu, Lijun
- van Driel, Martin
- van Wijk, Kasper

#### Funds

ObsPy was partially funded by the

- German Science Foundation (DFG) via grant DFG IG 16/9-1
- German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF), GEOTECHNOLOGIEN grant 03G0646H.
- NERA project (Network of European Research Infrastructures for Earthquake Risk Assessment and Mitigation) under the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) grant agreement n° 262330
- Leibniz Institute for Applied Geophysics (LIAG)
- VERCE EU-FP7 project (no. 283543)