# OWSLib

Canonical: https://gisforweb.com/tools/owslib/

Python toolkit for clients of OGC and OGC API web services.

OWSLib is a Python package for building clients for OGC web services and OGC API endpoints. It provides request builders, response parsers, and metadata models for WMS, WFS, WMTS, WCS, WPS, CSW, and related standards. It is useful for interoperable Python workflows that consume services from GeoServer, QGIS Server, pygeoapi, and other OGC implementations.

## Details

- Type: library

- Categories: data-processing

- Open source: Yes

- Pricing model: open-source

- License: BSD-3-Clause

- Platforms: linux, macos, windows

## Features

- Build requests for OGC web services

- Parse WMS, WFS, WMTS, and WCS responses

- Support OGC API Features and Processes

- Handle metadata and capability documents

- Work with WPS, CSW, and SOS services

- Integrate with common OGC server implementations

## Project sources

- Website: https://owslib.readthedocs.io/

- Documentation: https://owslib.readthedocs.io/

- Repository: https://github.com/geopython/OWSLib

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