Python Retrieval Assistant (PRA)

Generates robust Python scripts to retrieve specific documents, tables, datasets, and API resources with minimal friction.

Overview
policystatisticsresearch-assistant
python-downloaddata-retrieval
Key functions
  • Generate Colab-ready Python scripts to download files (PDF/CSV/ZIP) from known URLs with error handling.
  • Create HTML table extraction pipelines (BeautifulSoup/pandas) and optional API retrieval methods when more stable.
Technical details
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pythonretrievalassistant_pra
gpt_id
pythonretrievalassistant_pra
viz1
public
viz2
show_url
language
en
Other fields
additional_features
["Includes step-by-step Google Colab run instructions and a download-to-local helper snippet."]
example_commands
["Write a Colab script to download this PDF and save it as 'report_2025.pdf': <URL>", "Scrape the main statistics table from this page into UTF-8-SIG CSV with headers preserved: <URL>", "This site blocks simple requests—add headers, retries, and polite rate limiting to the downloader for: <URL>", "Provide two approaches to retrieve this dataset: (1) HTML scrape, (2) API if available; save outputs to ./output.csv: <URL>", "Turn this multi-file ZIP download page into a script that downloads all li
gpt_id
pythonretrievalassistant_pra
ideal_use_cases
["Download a known report or dataset URL into Colab/local and save with a clean filename, logs, and retries.", "Scrape an official webpage table into CSV (and optionally provide an API-based alternative when available)."]
limitations
["Does not perform broad exploratory research; requires a specific target resource (URL/page/API) and will not bypass authentication/paywalls."]
target_users
["Researchers and analysts who need reproducible data/document retrieval scripts.", "Policy, academic, and newsroom teams collecting public datasets, reports, and tables."]