# obspy.clients.seedlink.basic_client.Client.get_waveforms

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

  Request waveform data from the seedlink server.

      >>> from obspy import UTCDateTime
      >>> client = Client('rtserver.ipgp.fr')
      >>> t = UTCDateTime() - 1500
      >>> st = client.get_waveforms("G", "FDF", "00", "BHZ", t, t + 5)
      >>> print(st)
      1 Trace(s) in Stream:
      G.FDF.00.BHZ | 20... | 20.0 Hz, ... samples

  Most servers support ‘?’ single-character wildcard in location and channel code fields:

      >>> st = client.get_waveforms("G", "FDF", "??", "B??", t, t + 5)
      >>> st = st.sort(reverse=True)
      >>> print(st)
      3 Trace(s) in Stream:
      G.FDF.00.BHZ | 20... | 20.0 Hz, ... samples
      G.FDF.00.BHN | 20... | 20.0 Hz, ... samples
      G.FDF.00.BHE | 20... | 20.0 Hz, ... samples

  Note

  Support of wildcards strongly depends on the queried seedlink server. In general, ‘?’ as single character wildcard seems to work well in location code and channel code fields for most servers. Usage of ‘*’ for multiple characters in location and channel code field is not supported. No wildcards are supported in network and station code fields by ObsPy.

  Parameters: | network (str) Network code. No wildcards supported by ObsPy. station (str) Station code. No wildcards supported by ObsPy. location (str) Location code. See note on wildcards above. channel (str) Channel code. See note on wildcards above. starttime (`UTCDateTime`) Start time of requested time window. endtime (`UTCDateTime`) End time of requested time window.

### Thank you!

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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)