Sickle 0.1

A lightweight OAI client library for Python

Sickle
~~~~~~

Sickle is a lightweight OAI client library for Python.

Using Sickle
------------


>>> from sickle import Sickle
>>> client = Sickle('http://elis.da.ulcc.ac.uk/cgi/oai2')
>>> response = client.ListRecords(metadataPrefix='oai_dc')

Sickle provides different levels of abstraction for working with OAI
responses::

>>> response.xml
<Element {http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/}OAI-PMH at 0x10469a8c0>
>>> response.raw
u'<?xml version='1.0' encoding ...'

And a convenient way for iterating through all records of a repository:

>>> records = response.iter()
>>> records.next()
<Element {http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/}record at 0x1051b3b90>