hathitrust-api

A simple interface for the HathiTrust APIs. The package contains basic classes and associated methods for querying the Bibliographic API, Data API, and the HTRC Solr Proxy.

DataAPI

The Data API retrieves non-google public domain works from the HathiTrust.

An OAuth keyset from HathiTrust is required to use the Data API.

Example usage:

>>> from hathitrust_api import DataAPI
>>> data_api = DataAPI(your_oauth_key, your_oauth_secret)
>>> ocrtext = data_api.getpageocr('dul1.ark:/13960/t00z82c1q', 14)

BibAPI

The bibliographic API delivers HathiTrust bibliographic data and MARC records in JSON format.

Example:

>>> from hathitrust_api import BibAPI
>>> bib_api = BibAPI()
>>> bib_info = bib_api.get_single_record_json('htid', 'dul1.ark:/13960/t00z82c1q')
>>> bib_info.keys()
[u'records', u'items']
>>> bib_info['records']['010944133']['publishDates']
[u'1670']

SolrAPI

The HTRC Solr Proxy is a search index over the public domain collection.

>>> from hathitrust_api import SolrAPI
>>> solr = SolrAPI()
>>> results = solr.query("new zealand", fields=['title'])
>>> results
{u'responseHeader': {u'status': 0, u'QTime': 19}, u'response': {u'start': 0, u'numFound': 366613, u'docs': [{u'title': [u'The statues of New Zealand ...']}, {u'title': [u'New Zealand.']}, {u'title': [u"Wise's New Zealand index"]}, {u'title': [u'Palaeontological bulletin.']}, {u'title': [u'New Zealand,']}, {u'title': [u'The New Zealand official year-book.']}, {u'title': [u'The New Zealand official year-book.']}, {u'title': [u'The New Zealand official year-book.']}, {u'title': [u'The New Zealand official year-book.']}, {u'title': [u'The New Zealand official year-book.']}]}}

Packages:

• requests (available in PyPI)
• requests-oauthlib (a Requests plugin; the version in PyPI had some errors, so you may need to get it straight from the source.)

Needed:

• Write test cases.