Census Metadata function?

[mr-fuller]

Is there any interest in a function to retrieve metadata (variables, names, labels, concepts, etc.) for datasets? I've started working on something here.

[toolness]

Hey, I know it's been over two years since you posted this issue, but as a complete census newbie, I would really like something like this! I ended up having to scour the internet in order to get this metadata. I'd love to both integrate your code into this package and also update the README examples so they use your new functionality instead of hard-coding them.

[mr-fuller]

Have you looked at cenpy(https://cenpy-devs.github.io/cenpy/api.html)? It looks like that package might have some of these exploratory features. For ACS data, it looks like they have a way to return a dataframe of variables: https://cenpy-devs.github.io/cenpy/generated/cenpy.products.ACS.variables.html#cenpy.products.ACS.variables

[toolness]

Oh thanks, I'll take a look at this! Although from a very brief glance it looks like cenpy is dependent on pandas, which I'm not using for my current project. Hmmmm.