After you have subscribed to a data product using the Flight service as the delivery method for one or more items, you can programmatically access the data using an Arrow client. Arrow libraries are available for C, C++, C#, Go, Java, JavaScript, Julia, MATLAB, Python, R and Ruby. See Apache Arrow for instructions on installing the libraries for each language. This topic provides a Python example for accessing the data in a data product from an Arrow client.

When you subscribe to a data product and select delivery by the Flight service, you receive a Flight URL and Descriptor that are used to access the data product. You can download the Flight URL and Descriptor from the subscription tile that is located under My subscriptions.

The Flight URL points to the external route of the Flight service for your environment. The Descriptor contains an asset ID and a catalog ID used to connect to a data source to deliver the items in a data product.

Parent topic: Getting a data product