A lightweight OAI client library for Python
Project description
Sickle: OAI-PMH for Humans
Sickle is a lightweight OAI-PMH client library written in Python. It has been designed for conveniently retrieving data from OAI interfaces the Pythonic way:
>>> from sickle import Sickle >>> sickle = Sickle('http://elis.da.ulcc.ac.uk/cgi/oai2') >>> records = sickle.ListRecords(metadataPrefix='oai_dc') >>> records.next() <Record oai:eprints.rclis.org:4088>
Features
Easy harvesting of OAI-compliant interfaces
Support for all six OAI verbs
Convenient object representations of OAI items (records, headers, sets, …)
Automatic de-serialization of Dublin Core-encoded metadata payloads to Python dictionaries
Option for ignoring deleted items
Installation
pip install sickle
Dependencies:
Documentation
Documentation is available at Read the Docs
Development
Changelog
Version 0.5
Novemver 12, 2015
support for Python 3
consider resumption tokens with empty tag bodies
Version 0.4
May 31, 2015
bug fix: resumptionToken parameter is exclusive
added support for harvesting complete OAI-XML responses
Version 0.3
April 17, 2013
added support for protected OAI interfaces (basic authentication)
made class mapping for OAI elements configurable
added options for HTTP timeout and max retries
added handling of HTTP 503 responses
Version 0.2
February 26, 2013
OAI items are now represented as their own classes instead of XML elements
library raises OAI-specific exceptions
made lxml a required dependency
Version 0.1
February 20, 2013
First public release.
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