Web

Fetch data from the internet

This pairs well with the store plugin.

Required packages

• Downloads (part of Julia's stdlib)

Parameters

• url :: Path to the online data.
• headers :: HTTP headers that should be set.
• timeout :: Maximum number of seconds to try to download for before abandoning.

Usage examples

Downloading the data on-demand each time it is accessed.

[[iris.storage]]
driver = "web"
url = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mwaskom/seaborn-data/master/iris.csv"