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
>