[Archivesspace_Users_Group] curl help

[Arnold, Hillel]

Hi Ben,
I while back I wrote this pretty klunky Python script to do exports from AS. I’m sure someone who actually knows what they’re doing could probably improve it dramatically, but it might be a start:
https://gist.github.com/helrond/1ef5b5bd47b47bd52f02

Hillel Arnold
Lead Digital Archivist
Rockefeller Archive Center

From: Ben Goldman <bmg17 at psu.edu<mailto:bmg17 at psu.edu>>
Reply-To: Archivesspace Users Group <archivesspace_users_group at lyralists.lyrasis.org<mailto:archivesspace_users_group at lyralists.lyrasis.org>>
Date: Wednesday, January 21, 2015 at 8:57 AM
To: Archivesspace Users Group <archivesspace_users_group at lyralists.lyrasis.org<mailto:archivesspace_users_group at lyralists.lyrasis.org>>
Subject: Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] curl help

Noah, thanks for the feedback. It's good to know I am on the right track. I was able to get that to work. And in fact, we were able to build on that and perform a mass export of the finding aids, though for some reason only 1914 of 1940 resources were exported.

Now I am wondering how I might adjust the script to export the XML file with a file name that uses the value of the resource's identifier field rather than the ASpace system identifier for the record.

I agree that it would be great to see the documentation on the API/cURL expand in the way you outline. I feel there is so much more I could do with the API, that I do not fully understand the capabilities here. I just know being able to mass export finding aids with one script is pretty damn cool.

Thanks,
Ben


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From: "Noah Huffman" <noah.huffman at duke.edu<mailto:noah.huffman at duke.edu>>
To: "Archivesspace Users Group" <archivesspace_users_group at lyralists.lyrasis.org<mailto:archivesspace_users_group at lyralists.lyrasis.org>>
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2015 9:32:56 AM
Subject: Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] curl help

Hi Ben,

I’m a curl novice too, but your last example should work to output a single EAD file to the current directory.  The only thing I see is that in your example you have a single quote to begin the URL and a double quote to end it.  Maybe change the double quote at the very end to a single quote, or make both double quotes?

Something like:

curl --output “EADfilename.xml” -H "X-ArchivesSpace-Session: $TOKEN" ‘http://aspace1prod.dlt.psu.edu:9089/repositories/3/resource_descriptions/9235.xml?numbered_cs=true’

This works for me in Windows Powershell.

More generally, I think it would be helpful for noobs like us if the ASpace documentation included a short primer (with examples) on how to use curl to interact with the API.  This could supplement the existing API documentation at: http://archivesspace.github.io/archivesspace/doc/file.API.html

The ASpace developer screencasts are a good reference if you haven’t seen them, particularly this onehttp://youtu.be/iKd4ZME1uIE?list=PLJFitFaE9AY_DDlhl3Kq_vFeX27F1yt6I

-Noah

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Noah Huffman
Archivist for Metadata and Encoding
David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Duke University
noah.huffman at duke.edu<mailto:noah.huffman at duke.edu>
919-660-5982
http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/




From: archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org<mailto:archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org> [mailto:archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org] On Behalf Of Ben Goldman
Sent: Monday, January 19, 2015 3:56 PM
To: Archivesspace Users Group
Subject: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] curl help

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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