-- Query a single remote parquet file 
-- Query the January data from NY taxi data set
SELECT tpep_pickup_datetime, total_amount
FROM read_parquet('https://d37ci6vzurychx.cloudfront.net/trip-data/yellow_tripdata_2023-01.parquet')
LIMIT 10;
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-- Dynamically create the expected filenames to load
-- eg, the files names `2023-01.parquet` to `2023-06.parquet`
-- a lambda function can use the result of the generate_series(1, 6) 
-- and the format command can the `{:02d}` format specifier 
-- to left-pad filenames with 0's

SELECT filename, 
min(tpep_pickup_datetime), 
max(tpep_pickup_datetime), 
avg(total_amount)
FROM read_parquet(
    list_transform(
        generate_series(1, 6),
        n -> format('https://d37ci6vzurychx.cloudfront.net/trip-data/yellow_tripdata_2023-{:02d}.parquet', n) 
    ), filename=true
)
GROUP BY filename
ORDER BY filename;
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-- Install spatial extension
INSTALL spatial; 
LOAD spatial; 

-- Represent a latitude and longitude as a point
-- The Eiffel Tower in Paris, France has a 
-- latitude of 48.858935 and longitude of 2.293412
-- We can represent this location as a point
SELECT st_point(48.858935, 2.293412) AS Eiffel_Tower;
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-- Distance between the Eiffel Tower and the Arc de Triomphe in Paris
-- Using the EPSG spatial reference systems: 
-- EPSG:4326 geographic coordinates as latitude and longitude pairs
-- EPSG:27563 projection that covers northern France and uses meters 

SELECT
    st_point(48.858935, 2.293412) AS Eiffel_Tower, 
    st_point(48.873407, 2.295471) AS Arc_de_Triomphe,
    st_distance(
        st_transform(Eiffel_Tower, 'EPSG:4326', 'EPSG:27563'), 
        st_transform(Arc_de_Triomphe, 'EPSG:4326', 'EPSG:27563')
    ) AS Aerial_Distance_M;
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-- Load the geometry outline for each country
-- Save the country name and "geom" border in table world_boundaries
CREATE OR REPLACE TABLE world_boundaries
AS
SELECT *
FROM st_read('https://public.opendatasoft.com/api/explore/v2.1/catalog/datasets/world-administrative-boundaries/exports/geojson');

-- Find the enclosing country for a given point
-- We can which country the Eiffel Tower is in 
SELECT name, region
FROM world_boundaries
WHERE ST_Within(st_point(2.293412, 48.858935) , geom);
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-- DuckDB can directly query a public REST API returning a JSON 
-- Query the "tvmaze.com" API for the TV show "South Park"

SELECT name, type, summary
FROM read_json('https://api.tvmaze.com/singlesearch/shows?q=South%20Park', 
auto_detect=true, format='newline_delimited');
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-- Format the response from a public REST API 
-- Retrieve a list of temperature readings for Sydney, Australia 
-- The returned payload has hourly temps for 24 hours
-- We can use JSONPath to extract data from a JSON documemnt 
-- to find the most recent temperature

SELECT json_extract(hourly, '$.temperature_2m[1]')
from read_json('https://api.open-meteo.com/v1/forecast?latitude=-33.8678&longitude=151.2073&hourly=temperature_2m&forecast_days=1', auto_detect=true, format='newline_delimited');
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select ('EPOCH'::TIMESTAMP + INTERVAL (epoc_field::INT) seconds)::TIMESTAMPTZ  as epoc_tz
from
(
    -- epoc column - number of seconds since 1 Jan 1970
    select 1682481422 as epoc_field
)
;
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