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

Note: Node >= 10 is required for this module (because it makes use of async generators).

Library

Example

You can run the following script with node -r esm:

import { OaiPmh } from 'oai-pmh'
 
async function main () {
  const oaiPmh = new OaiPmh('http://export.arxiv.org/oai2')
  const identifierIterator = oaiPmh.listIdentifiers({
    metadataPrefix: 'oai_dc',
    from: '2015-01-01',
    until: '2015-01-04'
  })
  for await (const identifier of identifierIterator) {
    console.log(identifier)
  }
}
 
main().catch(console.error)

See OaiPmh in oai-pmh.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"

list-sets

oai-pmh list-sets <baseUrl>