> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://learn.canceridc.dev/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://learn.canceridc.dev/data/downloading-data/additional-tools.md).

# Additional tools

Since IDC data is available via standard interfaces, you can use any of the tool supporting those interfaces to access the data. This page provides pointers to some of such tools that you might find useful.

If you are aware of any other tool that is not listed here, but is helpful for accessing IDC data, please let us know on the [IDC forum](https://discourse.canceridc.dev/), and we will be happy to add it here!

### S3 API

* [**obstore**](https://developmentseed.org/obstore/latest/): open-source Python interface to [Amazon S3](https://aws.amazon.com/s3/), [Google Cloud Storage](https://cloud.google.com/storage), [Azure Storage](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/common/storage-introduction), & other S3-compliant APIs, powered by Rust


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