Command line tool for convenient access to Coursera Research Data Exports.
Project description
This project is a library consisting of a command line interface and a client for interacting with Coursera’s research exports. Up to date documentation of the data provided by Coursera for research purposes is available on gitbooks , Coursera Data Exports Guide.
Installation
To install this package, execute:
pip install courseraresearchexports
pip is a python package manager. If you do not have pip installed on your machine, please follow the installation instructions for your platform.
Note: the containers subcommand requires docker to already be installed on your machine. Please see the docker installation instructions for platform specific information.
autocomplete
To enable tab autocomplete, please install argcomplete using pip install autocomplete and execute activate-global-python-argcomplete. Open a new shell and press tab for autocomplete functionality.
See the argcomplete documentation for more details.
Setup
Authorize your application using courseraoauth2client:
courseraoauth2client config authorize --app manage_research_exports
To use the containers functionality, a docker instance must be running. Please see the docker getting started guide for installation instructions for your platform.
Upgrade
If you have a previously installed version of courseracourseexports, execute:
pip install courseraresearchexports --upgrade
This will upgrade your installation to the newest version.
Command Line Interface
The project includes a command line tool. Run:
courseraresearchexports -h
for a complete list of features, flags, and documentation. Similarly, documentation for the subcommands listed below is also available (e.g. for jobs) by running:
courseraresearchexports jobs -h
jobs
Submit a research export request or retrieve the status of pending and completed export jobs.
request
Creates an data export job request and return the export request id. To create a data export requests for all available tables for a course:
courseraresearchexports jobs request tables --course_slug $COURSE_SLUG \ --purpose "testing data export"
Replace $COURSE_SLUG with your course slug (The course slug is the part after /learn in the url. For https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning, the slug is machine-learning).
If a more limited set of data is required, you can specify which schemas are included with the export. (e.g. for the demographics tables):
courseraresearchexports jobs request tables --course_slug $COURSE_SLUG \ --schemas demographics --purpose "testing data export"
For more information on the available tables/schemas, please refer to the Coursera Data Exports Guide.
If you are a data coordinator, you can request that user ids are linked between domains of the data export:
courseraresearchexports jobs request tables --course_slug $COURSE_SLUG \ --purpose "testing data export" --user_id_hashing linked
Data coordinators can also request clickstream exports:
courseraresearchexports jobs request clickstream --course_slug $COURSE_SLUG \ --interval 2016-09-01 2016-09-02 --purpose "testing data export"
get_all
Lists the details and status of all data export requests that you have made:
courseraresearchexports jobs get_all
get
Retrieve the details and status of an export request:
courseraresearchexports jobs get $EXPORT_REQUEST_ID
download
Download a completed table or clickstream to your local destination:
courseraresearchexports jobs download $EXPORT_REQUEST_ID
clickstream_download_links
Due to the size of clickstream exports, we persist download links for completed clickstream export requests on Amazon S3. The clickstream data for each day is saved into a separate file and download links to these files can be retrieved by running:
courseraresearchexports jobs clickstream_download_links --course_slug $COURSE_SLUG
containers
create
Creates a docker container using the postgres image and loads export data into a postgres database on the container. To create a docker container from an export, first request an export using the jobs command. Then, using the $EXPORT_REQUEST_ID, create a docker container with:
courseraresearchexports containers create --export_request_id $EXPORT_REQUEST_ID
This will download the data export and load all the data into the database running on the container. This may take some time depending on the size of your export. To create a docker container with an already downloaded export (please decompress the archive first):
courseraresearchexports containers create --export_data_folder /path/to/data_export/
After creation use the list command to check the status of the container and view the container name, database name, address and port to connect to the database. Use the db connect $CONTAINER_NAME command to open a psql shell.
list
Lists the details of all the containers created by courseraresearchexports:
courseraresearchexports containers list
start
Start a container:
courseraresearchexports containers start $CONTAINER_NAME
stop
Stop a container:
courseraresearchexports containers stop $CONTAINER_NAME
remove
Remove a container:
courseraresearchexports containers remove $CONTAINER_NAME
db
connect
Open a shell to a postgres database:
courseraresearechexports db connect $CONTAINER_NAME
create_view
Create a view in the postgres database. We are planning to include commonly used denormalized views as part of this project. To create one of these views (i.e. for the demographic_survey view):
courseraresearchexports db create_view $CONTAINER_NAME --view_name demographic_survey
If you have your own sql script that you’d like to create as a view:
courseraresearchexports db create_view $CONTAINER_NAME --sql_file /path/to/sql/file/
Note: as user_id columns vary with partner and user id hashing, please refer to the exports guide for SQL formatting guidelines.
unload_to_csv
Export a table or view to a csv file. For example, if the demographic_survey was created in the above section, use this commmand to create a csv:
courseraresearchexports db unload_to_csv $CONTAINER_NAME --relation demographic_survey --dest /path/to/dest/
list_tables
List all the tables present inside a dockerized database:
courseraresearchexports db list_tables $CONTAINER_NAME
list_views
List all the views present inside a dockerized database:
courseraresearchexports db list_views $CONTAINER_NAME
Bugs / Issues / Feature Requests
Please us the github issue tracker to document any bugs or other issues you encounter while using this tool.
Developing / Contributing
We recommend developing courseraresearchexports within a python virtualenv. To get your environment set up properly, do the following:
virtualenv venv source venv/bin/activate python setup.py develop pip install -r test_requirements.txt
Tests
To run tests, simply run: nosetests, or tox.
Code Style
Code should conform to pep8 style requirements. To check, simply run:
pep8 courseraresearchexports tests
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