[Archivesspace_Users_Group] curl help

[Ben Goldman]

Hey All, 

Wondering if anyone can help a cURL novice work through the process of exporting a finding aid from the API. I've reviewed some of the past emails on this subject from Noah and Kevin but I am still hung up somewhere. A quick recap: 

Login: 



curl -F password='***' http://aspace1prod.dlt.psu.edu:9089/users/bmg17/login 




Save token: 




token=***** 




Just to verify I know what I am doing, try retrieving a resource record: 




curl -H "X-ArchivesSpace-Session: $token" 'http://aspace1prod.dlt.psu.edu:9089/repositories/3/resources/1352' 




Success: {"lock_version":0,"title":"Frederick R. Matson papers","publish":true, etc. etc. etc. 


I'm not going to do a mass publish yet, but went ahead and retrieved all the ids anyway: 




curl -H "X-ArchivesSpace-Session: $token" 'http://aspace1prod.dlt.psu.edu:9089/repositories/3/resources?all_ids=true' 




A long list. Including a very short resource record with the id of 9235. Now I am wondering exactly how I put this together to export just this one. This is the command mentioned in previous messages: 




curl --output “resource_#1.xml” -H "X-ArchivesSpace-Session: $TOKEN" 'http://aspace1prod.dlt.psu.edu:9089/repositories/3/resource_descriptions/$ids.xml?numbered_cs=true" 




I assume if I'm just exporting one, I can replace '$ids" with the actual number (9235), and that the value following --output can be whatever I want the finding aid file name to be. Is all this correct? And where would this actually output the file to? 




Thanks, in advance, for any help. 




-Ben 



Ben Goldman 
Digital Records Archivist 
Penn State University Libraries 
University Park, PA 
814-863-8333 
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/psul/speccolls.html 

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