A light-weight wrapper library around the JSON metadata in HCA data bundles. The library serves two purposes: providing convenient programmatic access to a subset of metadata attributes as well as decoupling clients from schema changes that would break direct access to the metadata.
Version 1.0 will be on PyPI but until then we need to install from GitHub:
virtualenv -p python3 foo
source foo/bin/activate
pip install "git+git://github.com/HumanCellAtlas/metadata-api@master#egg=hca-metadata-api[dss]"
You can omit [dss] at the end of the pip invocation if you don't need
the download helper this library provides and don't want to pull in the HCA CLI
distribution the helper depends on.