Hippo

Hippo is the 'data lake' for the Simons Observatory. We upload data products to be served alongside metadata and documentation. Data, encoded as 'Products' is grouped into 'Collections' (similar to folders) that can be easily browsed using the web interface. When logged in, you can download products directly to your machine from the browser.

henry

henry is your helpful command-line and python interface to Hippo. It (he?) can interact directly with Hippo from the command line or your python interpreter. Henry can be installed with pip install pyhippo, and provides both the henry CLI tool and python library. To get started, you'll need to get an API key from the SO identity service. You can register your key with

soauth register hippo ${YOUR_API_KEY}

Henry is configured using the ~/.hippo.conf file (in your home directory). Here's a reasonable default:

{
    "host": "https://hippo.simonsobservatory.org",
    "token_tag": "hippo",
    "verbose": true,
    "default_readers": ["simonsobs"]
}

Once you've registered your key, you can use henry to interact with Hippo; there's documentation on doing this available through the Hippo GitHub repository.