720 config file for data downloads

[patricklnz]

Changes and Information

Please briefly list the changes made, additional Information and what the Reviewer should look out for:

• a config file for the data downoads with several options to make the data downloads more user-friendly
  • a verbosity_level can be set
  • a backend for matplotlib can be set to handle some errors when showing plots
  • make_plot and no_raw has been removed from the default arguments of the main functions get_..._data (those can still be set via keyword arguments)
  • also interactivity can be set for a few downloads to handle errors and the progress indicator can be (de-)activated
  • all options can be called from CLI

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Closes #720
Closes #868
Closes #908
Closes #909