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:
>>> sickle = Sickle('http://elis.da.ulcc.ac.uk/cgi/oai2')
>>> records = sickle.ListRecords(metadataPrefix='oai_dc')
>>> records.next()
<Record oai:eprints.rclis.org:4088>
Sickle maps all important OAI items to Python objects:
>>> record.header
<Header oai:eprints.rclis.org:4088>
>>> record.header.identifier
'oai:eprints.rclis.org:4088'
Dublin-Core-encoded metadata payloads are easily accessible as dictionaries:
>>> record.metadata
{'creator': ['Melloni, Marco'],
'date': ['2000'],
'description': [u'A web site for...