osfexport 0.2.1

A package for exporting projects from the Open Science Framework web app. Comes with a Command-line interface for exporting projects.

OSF Project Exporter

This is a CLI tool for exporting research project data and files from the OSF website. This is to prototype tool to export projects from the OSF website to a PDF, allowing users to back up, share or document their OSF projects in an offline medium.

Development Setup

Virtual Environment

1. Clone this repository onto your local machine.
2. Create a virtual environment to install dependencies. For virtualenv this is done with virtualenv <myenvname>. Make sure your virtual environment is setup to use Python 3.12 or above (e.g., virtualenv <myenvname> --python="/usr/bin/python3.12" on Linux.)
3. From local Git repo: Activate your virtual environment and run pip install -e osfexport to install this repository as a modifiable package. Then install other requirements separately via pip install -r requirements.txt.
4. On the OSF website, create or log in to your account. Set up a personal access token (PAT) by going into your account settings, select Personal access tokens in the left side menu, and clicking Create token. You should give the token a name that helps you remember why you made it, like "PDF export", and choose the osf.full_read scope - this allows this token to read all public and private projects on your account. You can delete this token once you have finished exporting your projects.

Docker

You can setup a Docker container with this tool installed as a Python package:

1. Install and setup Docker and Docker Desktop on your local machine.
2. Clone this repository onto your local machine.
3. On the OSF website, create or log in to your account. Set up a personal access token (PAT) by going into your account settings, select Personal access tokens in the left side menu, and clicking Create token. You should give the token a name that helps you remember why you made it, like "PDF export", and choose the osf.full_read scope - this allows this token to read all public and private projects on your account. You can delete this token once you have finished exporting your projects.
4. Create a .env file and add your personal access token to it (see .env.template.)
5. In the root of this repository, run docker compose up --build -d to setup a container.
6. Use docker compose exec -it cli <commands> to run CLI tool commands (e.g. export-projects) or run unit tests (i.e. python -m unittest.)

Installation

From PyPI: releases 0.1.4 and onwards

Activate your virtual environment, for virtualenv this is done by:

• source <myenvname>/bin/activate on Linux
• <myenvname>\Scripts\activate on Windows/Mac

Next, run python -m pip install osfexport. This will download and install this package and other dependencies from the PyPI index.

From TestPyPi: releases before 0.1.4

Activate your virtual environment and run python -m pip install --index-url https://test.pypi.org/simple/ --extra-index-url https://pypi.org/simple osfexport. This will download the packages needed from the PyPI index and the packaged version of this CLI tool on the TestPyPI index.

Usage

• Run osfget to get a list of basic commands you can use.
• To see what a command needs as input, type --help after the command name (e.g. osfget show-welcome --help; osfget --help)
• To export all your projects from the OSF into a PDF, run osfget export-projects.