obspy.clients.earthworm.client.Client.save_waveforms¶

Client.save_waveforms(filename, network, station, location, channel, starttime, endtime, format='MSEED', cleanup=True)[source]¶

Writes a retrieved waveform directly into a file.

Parameters:

filename (str) Name of the output file. network (str) Network code, e.g. 'UW'. station (str) Station code, e.g. 'TUCA'. location (str) Location code, e.g. ''. channel (str) Channel code, e.g. 'BHZ'. Last character (i.e. component) can be a wildcard (‘?’ or ‘*’) to fetch Z, N and E component. starttime (UTCDateTime) Start date and time. endtime (UTCDateTime) End date and time. format (str, optional) Output format. One of "MSEED", "GSE2", "SAC", "SACXY", "Q", "SH_ASC", "SEGY", "SU", "WAV". See the Supported Formats section in method write() for a full list of supported formats. Defaults to 'MSEED'. cleanup (bool) Specifies whether perfectly aligned traces should be merged or not. See merge(), method -1 or _cleanup().

Returns:

None

Example

>>> from obspy.clients.earthworm import Client
>>> client = Client("pubavo1.wr.usgs.gov", 16022)
>>> t = UTCDateTime() - 2000  # now - 2000 seconds
>>> client.save_waveforms('AV.ACH.--.BHE.mseed',
...                       'AV', 'ACH', '', 'BHE',
...                       t, t + 10, format='MSEED')