# API Overview

This section contains auto-generated API documentation for the `sovai` Python SDK.

Every public function, class, and module is documented with its signature, parameters, return types, and docstring.

## Core API

| Function                                     | Description                             |
| -------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------- |
| [`sov.data()`](/api-reference/data.md)       | Retrieve data from 50+ endpoints        |
| [`sov.plot()`](/api-reference/plots.md)      | Generate pre-built visualizations       |
| [`sov.report()`](/api-reference/reports.md)  | Generate analytical reports             |
| [`sov.compute()`](/api-reference/compute.md) | Run computations on data                |
| [`sov.explain()`](/api-reference/tools.md)   | AI-powered chart and table explanations |

## Authentication

| Function                                           | Description                      |
| -------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------- |
| [`sov.token_auth()`](/api-reference/token-auth.md) | Authenticate with API token      |
| [`sov.basic_auth()`](/api-reference/basic-auth.md) | Authenticate with email/password |
| [`sov.read_key()`](/api-reference/api-config.md)   | Read token from .env file        |

## Extensions

The [Extensions](/api-reference/extensions.md) module adds analytics methods directly to DataFrames: anomaly detection, clustering, feature extraction, signal evaluation, and more.

## Plot Library

The [Plot Library](/api-reference/plots-1.md) contains 50+ pre-built chart types organized by dataset category.


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