<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Ian has generalised the problem really well (this is exactly what I do with my twitter harvester).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">What are you looking to harvest, Edwin?</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 9 Jun 2015, at 02:32, Ian Stuart <<a href="mailto:Ian.Stuart@ed.ac.uk" class="">Ian.Stuart@ed.ac.uk</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">On 08/06/15 21:33, Edwin Gamez wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">How can i use Eprints like a harvester?<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Find out what the API of the target gives back, write an importer to <br class="">handle that, and then run a regular cron-job to get the latest records <br class="">from the target, and import them using your new importer<br class=""><br class="">(that's basically what we do with the Router.... except we get the data <br class="">fed to us via SWORD or FTP - we have written importers that translate <br class="">the metadata sent to us into the fields we use in our EPrints)<br class=""><br class="">-- <br class=""><br class="">Ian Stuart.<br class="">Developer: ORI, RJ-Broker, and <a href="http://OpenDepot.org" class="">OpenDepot.org</a><br class="">Bibliographics and Multimedia Service Delivery team,<br class="">EDINA,<br class="">The University of Edinburgh.<br class=""><br class=""><a href="http://edina.ac.uk/" class="">http://edina.ac.uk/</a><br class=""><br class="">This email was sent via the University of Edinburgh.<br class=""><br class="">The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in<br class="">Scotland, with registration number SC005336.<br class=""><br class="">*** Options: http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/eprints-tech<br class="">*** Archive: http://www.eprints.org/tech.php/<br class="">*** EPrints community wiki: http://wiki.eprints.org/<br class="">*** EPrints developers Forum: http://forum.eprints.org/<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>