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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. >