Sickle is a lightweight OAI-PMH client library written in Python. It has been designed for conveniently retrieving data from OAI interfaces the Pythonic way:

>>> from sickle import Sickle
>>> sickle = Sickle('http://elis.da.ulcc.ac.uk/cgi/oai2')
>>> records = sickle.ListRecords(metadataPrefix='oai_dc')
>>> records.next()
<Record oai:eprints.rclis.org:4088>

• Easy harvesting of OAI-compliant interfaces
• Support for all six OAI verbs
• Convenient object representations of OAI items (records, headers, sets, ...)
• Automatic de-serialization of Dublin Core-encoded metadata payloads to Python dictionaries
• Option for ignoring deleted items

pip install sickle

Dependencies:

• requests
• lxml

Documentation is available at Read the Docs

• Sickle @ GitHub