A notebook to parse some existing OPDS feeds and to start creating ones too.

pull/1/head
Raymond Yee 2014-06-13 18:47:20 -04:00
parent b675052736
commit f6e7c834de
1 changed files with 281 additions and 0 deletions

View File

@ -0,0 +1,281 @@
{
"metadata": {
"name": "",
"signature": "sha256:7865e16e46f11164fb7a3a9954930ceb8071cb6c6842de0bd66aba69c8147ae1"
},
"nbformat": 3,
"nbformat_minor": 0,
"worksheets": [
{
"cells": [
{
"cell_type": "markdown",
"metadata": {},
"source": [
"\n",
"\n",
"Let me see some examples of OPDS in the wild to see how it works:\n",
"\n",
"available feeds: https://code.google.com/p/openpub/wiki/AvailableFeeds\n",
"\n",
"let's look at archive.org, which presumably should have a good feed\n",
"\n",
"* archive.org: http://bookserver.archive.org/catalog/\n",
"* feedbooks.com: http://www.feedbooks.com/catalog.atom\n",
"* oreilly.com: http://opds.oreilly.com/opds/\n"
]
},
{
"cell_type": "heading",
"level": 1,
"metadata": {},
"source": [
"Some concepts"
]
},
{
"cell_type": "markdown",
"metadata": {},
"source": [
"http://www.slideshare.net/fullscreen/HadrienGardeur/understanding-opds/7\n",
"\n",
"OPDS is based on\n",
"\n",
"* resources\n",
"* collections \n",
"\n",
"A collection aggregates resources.\n",
"\n",
"Two kinds of resources:\n",
"\n",
"* Navigation link \n",
"* Catalog entry \n",
"\n",
"for two kinds of collections:\n",
"\n",
"* Navigation \n",
"* Acquisition"
]
},
{
"cell_type": "heading",
"level": 2,
"metadata": {},
"source": [
"Acquisition scenarios"
]
},
{
"cell_type": "markdown",
"metadata": {},
"source": [
"Multiple acquisition scenarios:\n",
" \n",
"* Open Access\n",
"* Sale\n",
"* Lending\n",
"* Subscription\n",
"* Extract\n",
"* Undefined"
]
},
{
"cell_type": "code",
"collapsed": false,
"input": [
"import requests\n",
"from lxml.etree import fromstring\n",
"\n",
"ATOM_NS = \"http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom\"\n",
"\n",
"def nsq(url, tag):\n",
" return \"{\" + url +\"}\" + tag\n",
"\n",
"url = \"http://bookserver.archive.org/catalog/\"\n",
" \n",
"r = requests.get(url)"
],
"language": "python",
"metadata": {},
"outputs": [],
"prompt_number": 32
},
{
"cell_type": "code",
"collapsed": false,
"input": [
"doc=fromstring(r.text)\n",
"doc"
],
"language": "python",
"metadata": {},
"outputs": [
{
"metadata": {},
"output_type": "pyout",
"prompt_number": 7,
"text": [
"<Element {http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom}feed at 0x1034b7320>"
]
}
],
"prompt_number": 7
},
{
"cell_type": "code",
"collapsed": false,
"input": [
"# get links\n",
"# what types specified in spec?\n",
"\n",
"[link.attrib for link in doc.findall(nsq(ATOM_NS,'link'))]"
],
"language": "python",
"metadata": {},
"outputs": [
{
"metadata": {},
"output_type": "pyout",
"prompt_number": 34,
"text": [
"[{'href': 'http://bookserver.archive.org/catalog/', 'type': 'application/atom+xml', 'rel': 'self'},\n",
" {'href': 'http://bookserver.archive.org/catalog/crawlable', 'type': 'application/atom+xml', 'rel': 'http://opds-spec.org/crawlable', 'title': 'Crawlable feed'},\n",
" {'href': 'http://bookserver.archive.org/catalog/opensearch.xml', 'type': 'application/opensearchdescription+xml', 'rel': 'search'}]"
]
}
],
"prompt_number": 34
},
{
"cell_type": "markdown",
"metadata": {},
"source": [
"it might be useful to use specialized libraries to handle Atom or AtomPub."
]
},
{
"cell_type": "code",
"collapsed": false,
"input": [
"doc.findall(nsq(ATOM_NS, \"entry\"))"
],
"language": "python",
"metadata": {},
"outputs": [
{
"metadata": {},
"output_type": "pyout",
"prompt_number": 24,
"text": [
"[<Element {http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom}entry at 0x10442d128>,\n",
" <Element {http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom}entry at 0x10442d098>,\n",
" <Element {http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom}entry at 0x10442d050>]"
]
}
],
"prompt_number": 24
},
{
"cell_type": "heading",
"level": 1,
"metadata": {},
"source": [
"Atom feed generation"
]
},
{
"cell_type": "markdown",
"metadata": {},
"source": [
"https://github.com/sramana/pyatom\n",
"\n",
" pip install pyatom"
]
},
{
"cell_type": "code",
"collapsed": false,
"input": [
"# let's try the basics of pyatom\n",
"# puzzled wwhere <links> come from.\n",
"\n",
"from pyatom import AtomFeed\n",
"import datetime\n",
"\n",
"feed = AtomFeed(title=\"Unglue.it\",\n",
" subtitle=\"Unglue.it OPDS Navigation\",\n",
" feed_url=\"https://unglue.it/opds\",\n",
" url=\"https://unglue.it/\",\n",
" author=\"unglue.it\")\n",
"\n",
"# Do this for each feed entry\n",
"feed.add(title=\"My Post\",\n",
" content=\"Body of my post\",\n",
" content_type=\"html\",\n",
" author=\"Me\",\n",
" url=\"http://example.org/entry1\",\n",
" updated=datetime.datetime.utcnow())\n",
"\n",
"print feed.to_string()"
],
"language": "python",
"metadata": {},
"outputs": [
{
"output_type": "stream",
"stream": "stdout",
"text": [
"<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\"?>\n",
"<feed xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom\">\n",
" <title type=\"text\">Unglue.it</title>\n",
" <id>https://unglue.it/opds</id>\n",
" <updated>2014-06-13T21:48:34Z</updated>\n",
" <link href=\"https://unglue.it/\" />\n",
" <link href=\"https://unglue.it/opds\" rel=\"self\" />\n",
" <author>\n",
" <name>unglue.it</name>\n",
" </author>\n",
" <subtitle type=\"text\">Unglue.it OPDS Navigation</subtitle>\n",
" <generator>PyAtom</generator>\n",
" <entry xml:base=\"https://unglue.it/opds\">\n",
" <title type=\"text\">My Post</title>\n",
" <id>http://example.org/entry1</id>\n",
" <updated>2014-06-13T21:48:34Z</updated>\n",
" <link href=\"http://example.org/entry1\" />\n",
" <author>\n",
" <name>Me</name>\n",
" </author>\n",
" <content type=\"html\">Body of my post</content>\n",
" </entry>\n",
"</feed>\n",
"\n"
]
}
],
"prompt_number": 35
},
{
"cell_type": "heading",
"level": 1,
"metadata": {},
"source": [
"Appendix: dealing with namespaces in ElementTree"
]
},
{
"cell_type": "markdown",
"metadata": {},
"source": [
"Maybe come back to http://effbot.org/zone/element-namespaces.htm for more sophisticated ways to register namespaces."
]
},
{
"cell_type": "markdown",
"metadata": {},
"source": []
}
],
"metadata": {}
}
]
}