This library is a fork of https://github.com/OCLC-Developer-Network/oclc-auth-python which itself is a wrapper around the Web Service Authentication system used by OCLC web services, written for Python. It works with versions 2.7 and 3 (up to 3.6).
This library substitutes a GW-specific use case in place of the OCLC examples. It calls the Bibliographic Resource read method from the Worldcat Metadata API, passing it an OCLC number and retrieving the item's MARC data. From the MARC data, it attempts to extract the item's SUDOC number, title, year, and format. The results are written to a CSV file.
Clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/OCLC-Developer-Network/oclc-auth-python.git
Set up a virtualenv:
cd oclc-auth-python
virtualenv ENV
source ENV/bin/activate
Install the authliboclc library:
python setup.py install
Note: While the WorldCat Search API does have a rate limit, the WorldCat Metadata API does not have a rate limit at this time.
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Change directories to
gw -
Edit
config.py(copy fromexample.config.py) and insert your:- key
- secret
- principal_id
- principal_idns
- authenticating_institution_id
- path to the input file (one clean OCLC id per line - blank lines are okay)
- path to where you want the output CSV file
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Run from the command line:
python metadata_lookup.py
GW Libraries Users: See Deployment Notes / API Credentials / OCLC for credentials