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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> archivesspace_users_group-bounces@lyralists.lyrasis.org [mailto:archivesspace_users_group-bounces@lyralists.lyrasis.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Majewski, Steven Dennis (sdm7g)<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, April 01, 2016 11:05 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Archivesspace Users Group<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Batch extraction of Agent records through the API<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">You can also append, for example: “?page=$PAGE&page_size=$SIZE” <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">?all_ids=true # returns an array of id numbers<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On the last, use the “-g” switch in curl so it passes the brackets thru without interpreting and use something like:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Apr 1, 2016, at 10:47 AM, Kevin Clair <<a href="mailto:Kevin.Clair@du.edu">Kevin.Clair@du.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">At Denver we do this by passing ‘all_ids=true’ as a parameter to get the array of all records of a certain type, then iterating over the array to download each record one
by one. Code: <a href="https://github.com/duspeccoll/as_utils/blob/master/reports.rb"><span style="color:purple">https://github.com/duspeccoll/as_utils/blob/master/reports.rb</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">I haven’t found another way to do it but possibly others on the list have? -k<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">From:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><<a href="mailto:archivesspace_users_group-bounces@lyralists.lyrasis.org"><span style="color:purple">archivesspace_users_group-bounces@lyralists.lyrasis.org</span></a>>
on behalf of Eric Hanson <<a href="mailto:ehanson8@jhu.edu"><span style="color:purple">ehanson8@jhu.edu</span></a>><br>
<b>Reply-To:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Archivesspace Group <<a href="mailto:archivesspace_users_group@lyralists.lyrasis.org"><span style="color:purple">archivesspace_users_group@lyralists.lyrasis.org</span></a>><br>
<b>Date:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Friday, April 1, 2016 at 8:34 AM<br>
<b>To:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Archivesspace Group <<a href="mailto:archivesspace_users_group@lyralists.lyrasis.org"><span style="color:purple">archivesspace_users_group@lyralists.lyrasis.org</span></a>><br>
<b>Subject:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b>[Archivesspace_Users_Group] Batch extraction of Agent records through the API<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">During some recent experimentation with the ArchivesSpace API, we found while that while you can use an array to remove multiple records for a DELETE request via the API,
it seems like you can’t use an array with a GET request to retrieve multiple records as JSON. Has anyone found a method for extracting multiple records through the API?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The reason we’re trying to do this is that we would like to download our Agent records and run them through an OpenRefine batch process to find potential VIAF identifiers
based on the authorized name, review the VIAF identifiers for accuracy, and then push the VIAF labels and identifiers back into the Agent records as alternate names.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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