- ELINKAPI - A Python Interface for E-Link 2.0
This module is setup to mimic the E-Link 2.0 API Endpoints (API documentation found here) and allows for you to quickly get up and running submitting Records using Python.
- Install the package, but don't grab the dependencies (pip will attempt to grab everything from the test server, which we do not want):
pip install --index-url https://test.pypi.org/simple/ --no-deps elinkapi
- Now install the other dependencies:
pip install elinkapi
- Or install them separately:
pip install requests pydantic urllib3==1.26.6
- Access the E-Link connector via
from elinkapi import Elink
and creating an instance for use with your API key:api = Elink(token="Your_API_Token")
- API classes are accessible using
from elinkapi import Record
, etc. - Exception classes generated by the API are accessible using
from elinkapi import exceptions
then catching appropriateexceptions.BadRequestException
and the like.
- Install the package:
pip install elinkapi
- Access the E-Link connector via
from elinkapi import Elink
and creating an instance for use with your API key:api = Elink(token="Your_API_Token")
- API classes are accessible using
from elinkapi import Record
, etc. - Exception classes generated by the API are accessible using
from elinkapi import exceptions
then catching appropriateexceptions.BadRequestException
and the like.
Note: Ensure site_ownership_code is a value to which your user account token has sufficient access to create records.
from elinkapi import Elink, Record, exceptions
api = Elink(token="__Your_API_Token__")
# Record with minimal fields to save
my_record_json = {
"title": "A Dissertation Title",
"site_ownership_code": "AAAA",
"product_type": "TD"
}
# Convert json to Record object
my_record = Record(**my_record_json)
saved_record = None
try:
saved_record = api.post_new_record(my_record, "save")
except exceptions.BadRequestException as ve:
# ve.message = "Site Code AAAA is not valid."
# ve.errors provides more details:
# [{"status":"400", "detail":"Site Code AAAA is not valid.", "source":{"pointer":"site_ownership_code"}}]
from elinkapi import Elink, Record, BadRequestException
# Record missing fields, will give 2 validation errors, one for
# each missing field: title and product_type
my_invalid_record_json = {
"site_ownership_code": "AAAA"
}
try:
# The pydantic model will raise exceptions for the 2 missing
# fields - title and product_type
my_record = Record(**my_invalid_record_json)
except Exception as e:
print('Exception on Record creation')
# pydantic will return "missing" required fields as below:
# 2 validation errors for Record
# product_type
# Field required [type=missing, input_value={'site_ownership_code': 'BBBB'}, input_type=dict]
# For further information visit https://errors.pydantic.dev/2.6/v/missing
# title
# Field required [type=missing, input_value={'site_ownership_code': 'BBBB'}, input_type=dict]
# For further information visit https://errors.pydantic.dev/2.6/v/missing
my_invalid_record_json = {
"title": "A Sample Title",
"product_type": "TD",
"site_ownership_code": "AAAA"
}
my_record = Record(**my_invalid_record_json)
saved_record = None
try:
# The API will now return an error code on this call
# because "AAAA" is not a valid site_ownership_code
saved_record = api.post_new_record(my_record, "save")
except exceptions.BadRequestException as ve:
# E-Link BadRequestException provides details of the API response:
# ve.message = "Site Code AAAA is not valid."
# ve.errors provides more details:
# [{"status":"400", "detail":"Site Code AAAA is not valid.", "source":{"pointer":"site_ownership_code"}}]
from elinkapi import Elink
api = Elink(token="__Your_API_Token__")
osti_id = 99999999
revision_history = None
try:
revision_history = api.get_all_revisions(osti_id)
except Exception as e:
# Handle the exception as needed
most_recent_revision = revision_history[0]
oldest_revision = revision_history[-1]
from elinkapi import Elink
api = Elink(token = '__Your_API_Token__')
osti_id = 9999999
path_to_my_media = "/home/path/to/media.pdf"
saved_media = None
try:
saved_media = api.post_media(osti_id, path_to_my_media)
except Exception as e:
# Handle the exception as needed
from elinkapi import Elink
api = Elink(token = "___Your-API-Token___")
osti_id = 9999999
media_id = 71
reason = "Uploaded the wrong file"
response = None
try:
response = api.delete_single_media(osti_id, media_id, reason)
except Exception as e:
# Handle the exception as needed
from elinkapi import Elink
api = Elink(token = "___Your-API-Token___")
osti_id = 2300069
revision_id_left = 1
revision_id_right = 2
response = None
try:
response = elinkapi.compare_two_revisions(osti_id, revision_id_left, revision_id_right)
except Exception as e:
# Handle the exception as needed
from elinkapi import Elink, Query
api = Elink(token = "___Your-API-Token___")
query = api.query_records(title = "science", product_type = "JA")
# see number of results
print (f"Query matched {query.total_rows} records")
# paginate through ALL results using iterator
for page in query:
for record in page.data:
print (f"OSTI ID: {record.osti_id} Title: {record.title}")
The following methods may alter parameters on existing Elink instances to alter or set values.
from elinkapi import Elink
# you may set these directly or alter them later
# note target defaults to "https://review.osti.gov/elink2api/" for the E-Link 2.0 Beta
api = Elink(token = 'TOKENVALUE', target='API_ENDPOINT')
# change them
api.set_api_token("NEWTOKEN")
api.set_target_url("NEW_API_ENDPOINT")
Method:
set_api_token(api_token)
Returns: None
Params:
- api_token - str: Unique to user API token that can be generated from your E-Link 2.0 Account page
Method:
set_target_url(url="https://review.osti.gov/elink2api"):
Returns: None
Params:
- url - str: The url to which all other module methods will direct their requests (default: {"https://review.osti.gov/elink2api"})
Method:
get_single_record(osti_id)
Returns: Record
Params:
- osti_id - int: ID that uniquely identifies an E-Link 2.0 Record
Method:
query_records(params)
Example:
api.query_records(title="science")
Returns: Query object
Params:
- params - dict: See here for the list of allowed query parameters.
Method:
reserve_doi(record)
Returns: Record
Params:
- record - Record: Metadata record that you wish to save to E-Link 2.0
Method:
post_new_record(record, state="save")
Returns: Record
Params:
- record - Record: Metadata record that you wish to send ("save" or "submit") to E-Link 2.0
- state - str: The desired submission state of the record ("save" or "submit") (default: {"save"})
Method:
update_record(osti_id, record, state="save")
Returns: Record
Params:
- osti_id - int: ID that uniquely identifies an E-Link 2.0 Record
- record - Record: Metadata record that you wish to make the new revision of OSTI ID
- state - str: The desired submission state of the record ("save" or "submit") (default: {"save"})
Method:
get_revision_by_number(osti_id, revision_number)
Returns: Record
Params:
- osti_id - int: ID that uniquely identifies an E-Link 2.0 Record
- revision_number - int: The specific revision number to retrieve (original record is 1 and each revision increments upward by 1)
Method:
get_revision_by_date(osti_id, date)
Returns: Record
Params:
- osti_id - int: ID that uniquely identifies an E-Link 2.0 Record
- date - datetime: Date on which you wish to search for a revision of a Record
Method:
get_all_revisions(osti_id)
Returns: RevisionHistory
Params:
- osti_id - int: ID that uniquely identifies an E-Link 2.0 Record
Method:
compare_two_revisions(osti_id, left, right)
Returns: List[RevisionComparison]
Params:
- osti_id - int: ID that uniquely identifies an E-Link 2.0 Record
- left - int: The first revision number to retrieve and compare to the right
- right - int The second revision number to retrieve and compare to the left
Method:
get_media(osti_id)
Returns: MediaInfo
Params:
- osti_id - int: ID that uniquely identifies an E-Link 2.0 Record
Method:
get_media_content(media_file_id)
Returns: Byte string of the media file content
Params:
- media_file_id - int: ID that uniquely identifies a media file associated with an E-Link 2.0 Record
Method:
post_media(osti_id, file_path, params=None, stream=None)
Returns: MediaInfo
Params:
- osti_id - int: ID that uniquely identifies an E-Link 2.0 Record
- file_path - str: Path to the media file that will be attached to the Record
- params - dict: "title" that can be associated with the media file "url" that points to media if not sending file (default: {None})
- stream - bool: Whether to stream the media file data, which has better performance for larger files (default: {False})
Method:
put_media(osti_id, media_id, file_path, params=None, stream=None)
Returns: MediaInfo
Params:
- osti_id - int: ID that uniquely identifies an E-Link 2.0 Record
- media_id - int: ID that uniquely identifies a media file associated with an E-Link 2.0 Record
- file_path - str: Path to the media file that will replace media_id Media
- params - dict: "title" that can be associated with the media file "url" that points to media if not sending file (default: {None})
- stream - bool: Whether to stream the media file data, which has better performance for larger files (default: {False})
Method:
delete_all_media(osti_id, reason)
Returns: True on success, False on failure
Params:
- osti_id - int: ID that uniquely identifies an E-Link 2.0 Record
- reason - str: reason for deleting all media
Method:
delete_single_media(osti_id, media_id, reason)
Returns: True on success, False on failure
Params:
- osti_id - int: ID that uniquely identifies an E-Link 2.0 Record
- media_id - int: ID that uniquely identifies a media file associated with an E-Link 2.0 Record
- reason - str: reason for deleting media
Each class is a pydantic model that validates the metadata's data types and enumerated values on instantiation of the class. Each may be imported directly:
from elinkapi import Record, Organization, Person, Query, Identifier, RelatedIdentifier, Geolocation, MediaInfo, MediaFile
from elinkapi import Revision, RevisionComparison
Matches the Metadata model described in E-Link 2.0's API documentation
Produced by API query searches, enables pagination and access to total count of rows matching the query. Query is iterable, and may use Python constructs to paginate all results as desired.
Provides:
- total_rows - int: Total count of records matching the query
- data - list[Record]: Records on the current page of query results
- has_next() - boolean: True if there are more results to be fetched
- has_previous() - boolean: True if there is a previous page of results
Matches the Organizations model described in E-Link 2.0's API documentation
Matches the Persons model described in E-Link 2.0's API documentation
Matches the Identifiers model described in E-Link 2.0's API documentation
Matches the Related Identifiers model described in E-Link 2.0's API documentation
Schema
Geolocation: {
"type": str
"label": str
"points": List[Point]
}
Point: {
"latitude": float
"longitude": float
}
Example
{
"type": "BOX",
"label": "Utah FORGE",
"points": [
{
"latitude": 38.5148,
"longitude": -112.879748
},
{
"latitude": 38.483935,
"longitude": 112.916367
}
]
}
Schema
[
{
"media_id": int,
"revision": int,
"access_limitations": List[str],
"osti_id": int,
"status": str,
"added_by": int,
"document_page_count": int,
"mime_type": str,
"media_title": str,
"media_location": str,
"media_source": str,
"date_added": datetime,
"date_updated": datetime,
"date_valid_start": datetime,
"date_valid_end": datetime,
"files": List[MediaFile]
}
]
Example
[
{
"media_id": 233743,
"revision": 3,
"access_limitations": [],
"osti_id": 99238,
"status": "P",
"added_by": 34582,
"document_page_count": 23,
"mime_type": "application/pdf",
"media_title": "PDF of technical report content",
"media_location": "L",
"media_source": "MEDIA_API_UPLOAD",
"date_added": "1992-03-08T11:23:44.123+00:00",
"date_updated": "2009-11-05T08:33:12.231+00:00",
"date_valid_start": "2021-02-13T16:32:23.234+00:00",
"date_valid_end": "2021-02-15T12:32:11.332+00:00",
"files": []
}
]
Schema
{
"media_file_id": int,
"media_id": int,
"revision": int,
"status": str,
"media_type": str,
"url_type": str,
"added_by_user_id": int,
"file_size_bytes": int,
"date_file_added": datetime,
"date_file_updated": datetime"
}
Example
{
"media_file_id": 12001019,
"media_id": 1900094,
"revision": 2,
"status": "ADDED",
"media_type": "O",
"url_type": "L",
"added_by_user_id": 112293,
"file_size_bytes": 159921,
"date_file_added": "2023-12-20T22:13:16.668+00:00",
"date_file_updated": "2023-12-20T22:13:16.668+00:00"
}
Schema
{
"date_valid_start": datetime,
"date_valid_end": datetime,
"osti_id": int,
"revision": int,
"workflow_status": str
}
Example
{
"date_valid_start": "2022-12-04T13:22:45.092+00:00",
"date_valid_end": "2023-12-04T13:22:45.092+00:00",
"osti_id": 2302081,
"revision": 2,
"workflow_status": "R"
}
Schema
[
{
"date_valid_start": datetime,
"date_valid_end": datetime,
"osti_id": int,
"revision": int,
"workflow_status": str
}
]
Example
[
{
"pointer": "/edit_reason",
"left": "API record creation",
"right": "API metadata Update"
},
{
"pointer": "/description",
"left": "A custom description. Search on 'Allo-ballo holla olah'.",
"right": "A NEW custom description. Search on 'Allo-ballo holla olah'."
}
]
Various exceptions are raised via API calls, and may be imported and caught in the code. Using
from elinkapi import exceptions
will provide access to the various exception types for handling.
Generally raised when no API token value is provided when accessing E-Link.
Raised when attempting to query records, post new content to a site, or create/update records to which the API token has no permission.
Raised when provided query parameters or values are not valid or not understood, or if validation errors occurred during submission of
metadata. Additional details are available via the errors
list, each element containing the following information
about the various validation issues:
- detail: an error message indicating the issue
- source: contains a "pointer" to the JSON tag element in error
Example:
[{
"detail":"Site Code BBBB is not valid.",
"source":{
"pointer":"site_ownership_code"
}}]
Raised when OSTI ID or requested resource is not on file.
Raised when attempting to attach duplicate media or URL to a given OSTI ID metadata.
Raised if E-Link back end services or databases have encountered an unrecoverable error during processing.