No need for a module -- that would be using a chain saw to cut butter.

To return to an earlier suggestion, this is precisely where just retrieving
something via good ol' http is easiest. An OAI-PMH request is just a
request that looks exactly like the output from a really simple HTML form.
This means you can use the same syntax to get the data directly. For
example, to get a single record, all you need to do is something like:

http://drl.ohsu.edu/oai/oai.php?verb=GetRecord&identifier=oai:drl.ohsu.edu:hom%2F0&metadataPrefix=oai_dc(the
request could be POSTed too, but why bother?)

If you want all the metadata from all the records, just use use something
like:

http://drl.ohsu.edu/oai/oai.php?verb=ListRecords&set=hom&metadataPrefix=oai_dc

You'll need to deal with resumption tokens, but they're brain dead to
extract and use since they're just opaque strings that appear in
<resumptionToken> tags e.g.:

http://drl.ohsu.edu/oai/oai.php?verb=ListRecords&resumptionToken=hom:200:hom:0000-00-00:9999-99-99:oai_dc

If you're just getting into perl, I'd recommend becoming familiar with LWP
if you aren't already. Easy to use and very handy.

kyle


On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 3:59 PM, Eka Grguric <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I got it working by reordering my code and initializing properly (and by
> digging through a Perl textbook...).
> Thank you all for your advice!
>
> Now I have a Net::OAI::Harvester specific question - so far I've been able
> to retrieve titles and identifiers for all records but is there a way to
> default to the entirety of a record? I essentially want to be able to see
> all metadata associated with a given record in a given repository. I'm not
> sure if this is beyond the scope of this particular harvester (which has so
> far been awesome) but if so, how would I go about adding that
> functionality? By adding a distinct module? If so, any advice as to which?
>
> Again, thanks for all the help.
>