Can I ingest data before 2023?

[mclarenmp4-22]

I apologise if this is a silly question. I am aware that OpenF1 contains data only from the 2023 season onwards, but after seeing the historical ingestor, I am left a little confused, I need team radio and the overtakes endpoint from 2018 to 2022, and is it possible to ingest it from here?

[br-g]

Hello @mclarenmp4-22,

Not a silly question at all!

Data prior to 2023 hasn't been ingested on our end because maintaining backward compatibility requires a lot of extra work for a relatively small number of user requests.

However, getting data from 2018 to 2022 is definitely doable! I recommend running the historical ingestor locally on your own machine to pull the team radio and overtakes endpoints. Just a heads-up: you will likely need to make some manual adjustments to the code, as the data format from the source tends to change from season to season.

[mclarenmp4-22]

Thank you, I will try it, and is it possible for me to only ingest team radio and overtakes?

[br-g]

Yes it is possible, using the ingest_collections function for each session (inside a python script for example)