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Sickle 0.3 (experimental)
A lightweight OAI client library for Python

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version 0.3 on May 10th, 2013

Sickle: An OAI Client Library for Python

Sickle is lightweight OAI-PMH client library written in Python. It has been designed for conveniently retrieving data from OAI interfaces the Pythonic way:

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

Most importantly, Sickle lets you iterate through OAI records without having to deal with things like result batches or resumptionTokens yourself:

>>> records.next()
<Record oai:eprints.rclis.org:4088>

Installation

pip install sickle

Dependencies:

Changelog

Version 0.3
  • added support for protected OAI interfaces (basic auth)
  • made class mapping for OAI elements configurable
  • added options for HTTP timeout and max retries
  • added handling of HTTP 503 responses
Version 0.2
  • 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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Last updated May 10th, 2013

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