entityfactssheetsharvester - EntityFacts sheets harvester

entityfactssheetsharvester is a commandline command (Python3 program) that retrieves EntityFacts sheets* from a given CSV with GND identifiers and returns them as line-delimited JSON records

*) EntityFacts are "fact sheets" on entities of the Integrated Authority File (GND), which is provided by German National Library (DNB)

Usage

It eats CSV with GND identifiers (i.e. GND identifier per line) from stdin.

It puts the EntityFacts sheets one by one as line-delimited JSON record to stdout.

entityfactssheetsharvester

optional arguments:
  -h, --help                           show this help message and exit

• example:

  entityfactssheetsharvester < [INPUT CSV FILE WITH GND IDENTIFIERS] > [PATH TO THE OUTPUT LINE-DELIMITED JSON RECORDS FILE]
  

Run

• clone this git repo or just download the entityfactssheetsharvester.py file
• run ./entityfactssheetsharvester.py
• for a hackish way to use entityfactssheetsharvester system-wide, copy to /usr/local/bin

Install system-wide via pip

sudo -H pip3 install --upgrade [ABSOLUTE PATH TO YOUR LOCAL GIT REPOSITORY OF ENTITYFACTSSHEETSHARVESTER]

(which provides you entityfactssheetsharvester as a system-wide commandline command)

See Also

• entityfactspicturesharvester - a commandline command (Python3 program) that reads depiction information (images URLs) from given EntityFacts sheets (as line-delimited JSON records) and retrieves and stores the pictures and thumbnails contained in this information
• entityfactspicturesmetadataharvester - a commandline command (Python3 program) that reads depiction information (images URLs) from given EntityFacts sheets (as line-delimited JSON records) and retrieves the (Wikimedia Commons file) metadata of these pictures (as line-delimited JSON records)