For a simple usage example, see run.py.

Initializing a Period object with start and end dates and telling it to pull() the data will download a batch of questions from the API for the given time frame. After downloading the questions, it will then look for related data, such as answers, comments, tags and users. It will then proceed to persist the data.

By default, the data is persisted in the output directory. The application is aware of the previous downloads that are stored in this directory, and will not attempt to download them again.

The API's throttling limit can be greatly increased by providing the API credentials. By default, they are stored in the .key and .access_token files.