find_latest

gwdatafind.find_latest(*args, **kwargs)

Query for the most recent file of a given type.

Parameters

• site (str) – single-character name of site to match

• frametype (str) – name of frametype to match

• urltype (str, optional) – file scheme to search for, one of ‘file’, ‘gsiftp’, or None, default: ‘file’

• on_missing (str, optional) –

  what to do when the requested frame isn’t found, one of:

  • 'warn' print a warning (default), or

  • 'error': raise a RuntimeError, or

  • 'ignore': do nothing

Returns

latest (list with one str) – the URLs of the latest file found (all file types)

Raises

RuntimeError – if no frames are found