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Sickle: OAI-PMH for Humans

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Sickle: OAI-PMH for Humans

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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