# obspy.clients.neic.client.Client.get_waveforms

`Client.``get_waveforms`(network, station, location, channel, starttime, endtime)

  Gets a waveform for a specified net, station, location and channel from start time to end time. The individual elements can contain wildcard `"?"` representing one character, matches of character ranges (e.g. `channel="BH[Z12]"`). All fields are left justified and padded with spaces to the required field width if they are too short. Use get_waveforms_nscl for seednames specified with regular expressions.

  Notes

  Using `".*"` regular expression might or might not work. If the 12 character seed name regular expression is less than 12 characters it might get padded with spaces on the server side.

  Parameters: | network (str) The 2 character network code or regular expression (will be padded with spaces to the right to length 2) station (str) The 5 character station code or regular expression (will be padded with spaces to the right to length 5) location (str) The 2 character location code or regular expression (will be padded with spaces to the right to length 2) channel (str) The 3 character channel code or regular expression starttime (`UTCDateTime`) Start date and time. endtime (`UTCDateTime`) End date and time.
  Return type: | `Stream`
  Returns: | Stream object with requested data

  Example

      >>> from obspy.clients.neic import Client
      >>> client = Client()
      >>> t = UTCDateTime() - 5 * 3600  # 5 hours before now
      >>> st = client.get_waveforms("IU", "ANMO", "0?", "BH?", t, t + 10)
      >>> print(st)
      3 Trace(s) in Stream:
      IU.ANMO.00.BH... | 40.0 Hz, 401 samples
      IU.ANMO.00.BH... | 40.0 Hz, 401 samples
      IU.ANMO.00.BH... | 40.0 Hz, 401 samples

### 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)