I copied this code from quandl.com. I want to get the dataset specifics like is this data set data frequency Daily, Weekly, or Monthly. When I run the code I get the field names but no values, but if I try to load a csv file from quandl directly with out using python then I get what I need. I am not for sure why this won't work in python??
This is the code copied from https://www.quandl.com/docs/api?python#get-metadata
import quandl
metadata = quandl.Dataset("BOE/XUDLADS").data_fields()
print(metadata)
This is my output
['refreshed_at', 'premium', 'id', 'name', 'database_code', 'newest_available_date', 'frequency', 'description', 'oldest_available_date', 'type', 'column_names', 'dataset_code', 'database_id']
I get the field names but no values
when I just use this link, and not python I get exactly what I need https://www.quandl.com/api/v3/datasets/WIKI/FB/metadata.csv"
My ultimate goal is to store this metadata in a python dict()
The metadata is an attribute of the data itself. So you will have to get the data and then get to the metadata, as follows:
metadata = quandl.Dataset("BOE/XUDLADS").data().meta
I hope this helps.