MDM Python Client

This project contains a REST API client for MDM (Metadatamanagement System) of the Research Data Center of the DZHW.

Description

The client can be used to retrieve metadata from the public REST API of the MDM. Currently it uses a cache which gets stale after 24 hours.

You can install the latest version of this client with

pip install git+https://github.com/dzhw/mdm-python-client.git#v1.0.106

The previous last version which supports Python 2.7 can be installed with

pip install git+https://github.com/dzhw/mdm-python-client.git#v1.0.104

The installation will also install a command line version which you can run with

mdm --help

The following snippet demonstrates how to use the client programmatically:

from mdm_python_client.mdm_client import get_datapackage

def test_get_datapackage():
    datapackage = get_datapackage("stu-gra2005$")
    if datapackage is not None:
        print("Pakettitel:", datapackage.title.de)
        print("DOI:", datapackage.doi)
        print("Veröffentlichungsjahr:", datetime.datetime.strptime(datapackage.release.firstDate,
                                                           '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%f').strftime("%Y"))
    else:
        print("Datenpaket mit id", args.datapackageId, "nicht gefunden!")

Having trouble?

Please file an issue in the issue tracker of the MDM.