astropy.vo.client.vos_catalog.list_catalogs(service_type, cache=True, verbose=True, **kwargs)[source] [edit on github]¶
List the catalogs available for the given service type.
Parameters :
service_type : str
Name of the type of service, e.g., ‘conesearch_good’.
cache : bool
Use caching for VO Service database. Access to actual VO
websites referenced by the database still needs internet
connection.
verbose : bool
Show download progress bars.
pattern : str or None
If given string is anywhere in a catalog name, it is
considered a matching catalog. It accepts patterns as
in fnmatch and is case-insensitive.
By default, all catalogs are returned.
sort : bool
Sort output in alphabetical order. If not sorted, the
order depends on dictionary hashing. Default is True.