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 A collection of Jupyter Notebooks that make use of that package is available [here](https://github.com/ecmwf/notebook-examples/tree/master/opencharts).
 
+## Installation
+
+The `ecmwf-opendata` Python package can be installed from PyPI with:  
+
+```$ pip install ecmwf-opendata```
+
+## Usage
 The example below will download the latest available 10-day forecast for the *mean sea level pressure* (`msl`) into a local file called `data.grib2`:
 
 ```python