Do you know how to copy and fill in the information from other website information to Dataverses or Datasets using python?

[choiy...@gmail.com]

I want to copy and fill in the information from other website information to Dataverses or Datasets using python?

I read native API in user guide. But there are two examples that are about uploading and replacing an attached files.

I understood how to upload and replace an attached files.

I want to fill in the basic information(author,  notes, contact etc) and additional metadata to Dataverses or Datasets using python???

Does anyone know how to do that?

[danny...@g.harvard.edu]

Hello!

If you're familiar with Python, there's the Python Client Library here:

https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse-client-python

Using that library, you should be able to express the Dataverse concepts/endpoints using Python. This is something that's a little out of date, but there is discussion about some development efforts to get it up to date in 2018.

There's also the R Client Library, which is more up to date:

https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse-client-r

Lastly, if you are set on using the APIs, I think the endpoints you're looking for are available using SWORD:

http://guides.dataverse.org/en/latest/api/sword.html

Please let us know if you have any questions, and I hope someone from the community can correct anything that I've expressed incorrectly above (I'm not a developer :)).

Cheers,

Danny

[Philip Durbin]

I just wanted to mention that there was a recent call for more Python example in the API Guide: https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/issues/4255

I've written most of the examples in the API guide and I use curl because I feel like curl is more universal, that it's less controversial that picking any particular programming language.

That said, I recognize that Python is a very popular language.

The Dataverse API is more useful the better documented it is. Is there interest from the community helping add Python examples to the API Guide?

It's tricky to add lots of metadata to a dataset via the native API (and it isn't possible via SWORD). You have to create a fairly complex JSON document (I've heard that https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse-client-java supports this but I've never tested it myself). https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/issues/3068 is about supporting a simplified JSON format but it's a lot of work.

I don't know if this helps or not. What do others think?

Phil

p.s. Sometime we talk about using Dataverse APIs at http://chat.dataverse.org

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