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Thanks, Roy! Glad to hear you found this useful. I've also revised the README slightly to indicate the possibility of composer.phar-based installation. In a different conversation today, Chad Nelson brought up ResourceSync, which in some ways may prove to be OAI-PMH's successor (though it isn't exactly the same and had a broader range of use cases). I should note that I've named this project vufindharvest rather than vufindoaipmh because I envision the possibility of supporting other protocols in the future, and I hope that some logic and patterns can be shared across multiple protocol implementations. If anybody has use cases, code or ideas, I'm happy to discuss future possibilities! - Demian ________________________________________ From: Code for Libraries [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Roy Tennant [[log in to unmask]] Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2016 6:42 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] New OAI-PMH harvester project This is really cool, Demian, thanks a lot! I found it extremely easy to set up and get going, but with one minor change to the instructions. On Ubuntu Unix I needed to call Composer like so: php composer.phar install . But that wasn't much of a problem, as when I installed composer it told me how to invoke it. When I fired it up and pointed it at my photos server it downloaded over 13,000 OAI records in what seemed like a flash. I didn't realize my server (written from scratch in Perl) would respond so quickly (I set my resumption tokens at 100 recs). This is now my go-to OAI harvester as it is so easy to use and works (at least so far) without any trouble at all. Just what I like in a basic tool like this. Thanks for spinning this off from the VuFind code. Roy On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 10:05 AM, Demian Katz <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hello, > > VuFind has been bundled with an OAI-PMH harvest tool for a long time. It > occurred to me that this tool might be of more general interest, so I have > broken it out into a stand-alone project here: > > https://github.com/vufind-org/vufindharvest > > This provides a simple command-line interface for downloading records from > an OAI-PMH repository into a directory, including support for incremental > updates. All of the details are documented in the README on GitHub. > > The project can also be pulled in as a Composer dependency so that > harvests can be controlled by other applications; this is how VuFind will > continue to utilize the functionality in future releases. > > If anyone has questions about this project, please let me know! > > - Demian >