Re: [Dspace-tech] Log into DSpace with curl

2012-08-02 Thread Bram Luyten
Hi Simon, this is new to me as well, I got it to work using: curl --data login_email=myname%40gmail.comlogin_password=passwordsubmit=Sign+in http://www.mydspace.com/password-login I had some issues first using the --data-urlencode parameter instead of --data. This also encoded the ampersands

Re: [Dspace-tech] Log into DSpace with curl

2012-08-02 Thread helix84
Hi Simon, as an alternative to screen scraping, you may want to take a look at the REST API [1] which is made exactly for tasks like this one. Another alternative is a simple SQL query [2]. Just ask if you need more details. [1] https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/REST+API [2]

Re: [Dspace-tech] Log into DSpace with curl

2012-08-02 Thread helix84
Yet another alternative could be using Solr directly. Info on how to access Solr is here: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Solr The key you'd use is search.resourceid. Regards, ~~helix84 -- Live Security

Re: [Dspace-tech] Log into DSpace with curl

2012-08-02 Thread Pottinger, Hardy J.
Hi, Simon, I know that I would be interested in hearing more about what it is you're up to. :-) What's your use case for the item ID once you scrape it? Is this something that the REST-API module might be able to do for you? -- HARDY POTTINGER pottinge...@umsystem.edu University of Missouri

Re: [Dspace-tech] Log into DSpace with curl

2012-08-02 Thread Brown, Simon Contractor, Digital Consulting Services
02, 2012 2:41 AM To: Brown, Simon Contractor, Digital Consulting Services Cc: dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] Log into DSpace with curl Hi Simon, as an alternative to screen scraping, you may want to take a look at the REST API [1] which is made exactly for tasks like

Re: [Dspace-tech] Log into DSpace with curl

2012-08-02 Thread Brown, Simon Contractor, Digital Consulting Services
-tech@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] Log into DSpace with curl Hi, Simon, I know that I would be interested in hearing more about what it is you're up to. :-) What's your use case for the item ID once you scrape it? Is this something that the REST-API module might be able to do

Re: [Dspace-tech] Log into DSpace with curl

2012-08-02 Thread Pottinger, Hardy J.
] Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2012 7:27 AM To: Bram Luyten; Brown, Simon Contractor, Digital Consulting Services Cc: dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] Log into DSpace with curl Hi, Simon, I know that I would be interested in hearing more about what it is you're up

Re: [Dspace-tech] Log into DSpace with curl

2012-08-02 Thread helix84
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 5:12 PM, Brown, Simon Contractor, Digital Consulting Services scbr...@nps.edu wrote: Have you successfully used the 'content searching' part of the API? Didn’t work for me -- very basic queries would fail to return any results. It also lacks any specificity -- how do

[Dspace-tech] Log into DSpace with curl

2012-08-01 Thread Brown, Simon Contractor, Digital Consulting Services
We are using DSpace 1.8.2 with the JSPUI admin interface. I would like to log into DSpace using curl (or more precisely RCurl) because I want to be able to scrape item IDs (not the handles, but the actual IDs). My code looks something like this: postForm(dspace//password-login,