A simple ONS api that extracts away some of the complications
example usage
api = API(your_api_key)get a list of all data set names
api.get_data_set_names()get the specific list of download links for the datasets you're interested in
api.get_data_set_details("Population Estimates for High Level Areas")get the specific list of download links since a certain date
last_year = date.today() - timedelta(years=1)
api.get_data_set_details("Population Estimates for High Level Areas", since_date=last_year)assumes you want everything in english, parsing results as json and the download url as csv
if you wanted welsh and the api the download type to be xls and the dataformat to be xml you can do taht with
api = API(your_api_key, data_format='xml', language='cy', download_type='XLS')