Welcome to ezesri

ezesri is a lightweight Python package for extracting data and metadata from Esri REST API endpoints. It provides a modular API and optional CLI for exporting feature layers and metadata to common formats, with robust handling of Esri-specific pagination and filtering.

Features

• Simple API - Fetch metadata and extract layers with just a few lines of Python
• CLI included - Quick data extraction from the command line
• Multiple formats - Export to GeoJSON, Shapefile, GeoPackage, File Geodatabase, GeoParquet and more
• Pagination handling - Automatically handles Esri's feature limits
• Filtering - Filter by attributes or bounding box

Quick start

Install from PyPI:

pip install ezesri

Extract a layer:

import ezesri

url = "https://services.arcgis.com/.../FeatureServer/0"
gdf = ezesri.extract_layer(url)
gdf.to_file("output.geojson", driver="GeoJSON")

Or use the CLI:

ezesri fetch <URL> --format geojson --out output.geojson

Web app

Don't have Python installed? Use the web app to extract GeoJSON directly in your browser.