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
