# obspy.clients.arclink.client.Client.get_inventory

`Client.``get_inventory`(network, station='*', location='*', channel='*', starttime=UTCDateTime(2019, 2, 17, 11, 19, 54, 881451), endtime=UTCDateTime(2019, 2, 17, 11, 19, 54, 881465), instruments=False, route=False, sensortype='', min_latitude=None, max_latitude=None, min_longitude=None, max_longitude=None, restricted=None, permanent=None, modified_after=None)

  Returns information about the available networks and stations in that particular space/time region.

  Parameters: | network (str) Network code, e.g. `'BW'`. station (str) Station code, e.g. `'MANZ'`. Station code may contain wild cards. location (str) Location code, e.g. `'01'`. Location code may contain wild cards. channel (str) Channel code, e.g. `'EHE'`. Channel code may contain wild cards. starttime (`UTCDateTime`) Start date and time. endtime (`UTCDateTime`) End date and time. instruments (bool, optional) Include instrument data (default is `False`). route (bool, optional) Enables ArcLink routing (default is `False`). sensortype (str, optional) Limit streams to those using specific sensor types: `"VBB"`, `"BB"`, `"SM"`, `"OBS"`, etc. Can be also a combination like `"VBB+BB+SM"`. min_latitude (float, optional) Minimum latitude. max_latitude (float, optional) Maximum latitude. min_longitude (float, optional) Minimum longitude. max_longitude (float, optional) Maximum longitude permanent (bool, optional) Requesting only permanent or temporary networks respectively. Default is `None`, therefore requesting all data. restricted (bool, optional) Requesting only networks/stations/streams that have restricted or open data respectively. Default is `None`. modified_after (`UTCDateTime`, optional) Returns only data modified after given date. Default is `None`, returning all available data.
  Returns: | Dictionary of inventory information.

  Example

      >>> from obspy.clients.arclink import Client
      >>> client = Client('test@obspy.org', 'webdc.eu', 18001)
      >>> inv = client.get_inventory('BW', 'M*', '*', 'EHZ',
      ...                            restricted=False,
      ...                            permanent=True, min_longitude=12,
      ...                            max_longitude=12.2)
      >>> inv.keys()
      ['BW.MROB', 'BW.MANZ..EHZ', 'BW', 'BW.MANZ', 'BW.MROB..EHZ']
      >>> inv['BW']
      AttribDict({'description': 'BayernNetz', 'region': 'Germany', ...
      >>> inv['BW.MROB']
      AttribDict({'code': 'MROB', 'description': 'Rosenbuehl, Bavaria', ...

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#### 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)