Welcome to Bolster's documentation!
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Bolster is a Python utility library that provides standardised, ready-to-use
access to Northern Ireland and UK government data sources alongside a set of
general-purpose helpers for data processing, web scraping, and cloud
integrations.

**Key areas:**

- :doc:`Data sources <data_sources>` — NISRA, PSNI, DVA, NI Water, EONI, Companies House, Met Office, and more
- :doc:`CLI <api>` — command-line access to every data source (``bolster --help``)
- :doc:`Usage examples <usage>` — concurrency helpers, data transformation, HTTP utilities

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2
   :caption: User Guide

   readme
   installation
   usage
   data_sources

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 3
   :caption: API Reference

   api

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2
   :caption: Development

   contributing
   data_source_development
   development/auto-versioning
   quality-gate-system
   authors
   history

Indices and tables
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* :ref:`genindex`
* :ref:`modindex`
* :ref:`search`