possible inspirations?

[codinguncut]

https://github.com/ckan/ckan
https://github.com/iamaziz/PyDataset

I'm also collecting some datasets and using similar yaml syntax. maybe there is a possibliity to collaborate...
Your resources/recipes seem more geared towards volume than specificity...

[rmax]

Your resources/recipes seem more geared towards volume than specificity...

My big fail on documenting the design. My goal was a tool to find and download datasets with a very lightweight api to load the file contents.

Not actually assuming anything about the datasets itself as the other libs.