NAME

oai_pmh.pl - pipe OAI-PMH to the command-line

SYNOPSIS

oai_pmh.pl <options> [baseURL]

OPTIONS

--help

--man

--verbose

Be more verbose (repeatable).

--force

Force a non-conformant OAI request.

--from <ISO datetime>

--identifier <identifier>

OAI identifier to GetRecord or ListMetadataFormats.

--metadataPrefix <mdp>

Specify format of metadata to retrieve.

-X/--request <command>

Verb to request, defaults to ListRecords.

--set <oai set>

Request only those records in a set.

--until <ISO datetime>

DESCRIPTION

Retrieve data from OAI-PMH endpoints. The output format is:

<headers>

<content>
<FORMFEED>

Where <headers> are in HTTP header format. Content will be the raw XML as exposed by the repository. Each record is separated by a FORMFEED character.

For example:

oai_pmh.pl -X GetRecord --metadataPrefix oai_dc \
	--identifier oai:eprints.soton.ac.uk:20 http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/cgi/oai2