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scriptotek/oai-pmh-client
=========================

Package for harvesting data from OAI-PMH repositories

v0.7.1(9y ago)25072MITPHPPHP >=5.5

Since Dec 15Pushed 9y ago3 watchersCompare

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**Note**: This package is abandoned. I recommend using the [caseyamcl/phpoaipmh](https://github.com/caseyamcl/phpoaipmh) package instead. It has an almost identical interface, great code quality and more contributors, so I see no reason to continue maintaining this package.

php-oai-pmh-client
------------------

[](#php-oai-pmh-client)

Simple PHP client package for fetching data from an OAI-PMH server, using the [Guzzle HTTP client](http://guzzlephp.org/). The returned data is parsed by [QuiteSimpleXMLElement](//github.com/danmichaelo/quitesimplexmlelement).

On network problems, the client will retry a configurable number of times, emitting a `request.error` event each time, before finally throwing a `ConnectionError`.

### Install using Composer

[](#install-using-composer)

```
composer require scriptotek/oai-pmh-client

```

### Example

[](#example)

```
require_once('vendor/autoload.php');
use Scriptotek\OaiPmh\Client as OaiPmhClient;

$url = 'http://oai.bibsys.no/repository';

$client = new OaiPmhClient($url, array(
    'schema' => 'marcxchange',
    'user-agent' => 'MyTool/0.1',
    'max-retries' => 10,
    'sleep-time-on-error' => 30,
));
```

#### Fetching a single record

[](#fetching-a-single-record)

```
try {
    $record = $client->record('oai:bibsys.no:biblio:113889372');
} catch (Scriptotek\OaiPmh\ConnectionError $e) {
    echo $e->getMsg();
    die;
} catch (Scriptotek\OaiPmh\BadRequestError $e) {
    echo 'Bad request: ' . $e->getMsg() . "\n";
    die;
}

echo $record->identifier . "\n";
echo $record->datestamp . "\n";
echo $record->data->asXML() . "\n";
```

#### Iterating over a record set

[](#iterating-over-a-record-set)

```
foreach ($client->records('') as $record) {
	echo $record->identifier . "\n";
	echo $record->datestamp . "\n";
}
```

### Events

[](#events)

```
$client->on('request.start', function($verb) {
    print "Starting " . $verb . " request\n";
});
$client->on('request.error', function($err) {
    print "Non-fatal error: " . $err . "\n";
});
$client->on('request.complete', function($verb) {
    print "Completed " . $verb . " request\n";
});
```

### API documentation

[](#api-documentation)

API documentation can be generated using e.g. [Sami](https://github.com/fabpot/sami), which is included in the dev requirements of `composer.json`.

```
php vendor/bin/sami.php update sami.config.php -v

```

You can view it at [scriptotek.github.io/php-oai-pmh-client](//scriptotek.github.io/php-oai-pmh-client/)

###  Health Score

28

—

LowBetter than 54% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity17

Limited adoption so far

Community10

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity54

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~89 days

Recently: every ~35 days

Total

9

Last Release

3459d ago

PHP version history (2 changes)v0.1.0PHP >=5.3

v0.7.0PHP >=5.5

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/87db1d80793d2adbeca18997c33acbb5cf1dec75ccc5c19f147d666dfbf2e990?d=identicon)[danmichaelo](/maintainers/danmichaelo)

---

Top Contributors

[![danmichaelo](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/434495?v=4)](https://github.com/danmichaelo "danmichaelo (45 commits)")

---

Tags

OAI-PMH

###  Code Quality

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