OAI PMH

A nodejs module for the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH 2.0). Use this module if you want to harvest metadata from OAI-PMH providers, e.g., arxiv.

Installation

npm install oai-pmh

Library

Example

import { OaiPmh } from 'oai-pmh';

const oaiPmh = new OaiPmh('http://export.arxiv.org/oai2');
const iterator = oaiPmh.listIdentifiers({from: '2017-11-01'});
for (const getNext of iterator) {
  const item = await getNext;
  // do something with item
}

See OaiPmh in index.js for all available commands.

CLI

Example

Get identifiers of all arxiv articles:

oai-pmh list-identifiers http://export.arxiv.org/oai2 -p arXiv

Available commands

`get-record`

oai-pmh get-record <baseUrl>

Options:

  -i, --identifier <id>
  -p, --metadata-prefix <prefix>

`identify`

oai-pmh identify <baseUrl>

`list-identifiers`

oai-pmh list-identifiers [options] <baseUrl>

Options:

  -p, --metadata-prefix <prefix>
  -f, --from <DATE>               from date YYYY-MM-DD or ISO8601
  -u, --until <DATE>              from date YYYY-MM-DD or ISO8601
  -s, --set <SETSPEC>             set specifier, e.g., "math"

`list-metadata-formats`

oai-pmh list-metadata-formats [options] <baseUrl>

Options:

  -i, --identifier <id>

`list-records`

oai-pmh list-records [options] <baseUrl>

Options:

  -p, --metadata-prefix <prefix>
  -f, --from <DATE>               from date YYYY-MM-DD or ISO8601
  -u, --until <DATE>              from date YYYY-MM-DD or ISO8601
  -s, --set <SETSPEC>             set specifier, e.g., "math"