dnet/aleph-python-api

Python API for accessing Aleph library systems

Aleph Python API

Usage

The aleph module offers a single class named Aleph, which wraps the functionality of the Aleph web interface. Currently, this includes login/logout and getting the list of loaned books. For further information, see the example below.

>>> from aleph import Aleph
>>> a = Aleph()
>>> a.login('http://aleph.omikk.bme.hu', 'username', 'password')
>>> a.get_loaned()
[{'title': u'Platon \xf6sszes m\u0171vei', 'due': datetime.datetime(2012, 2, 1, 20, 0), 'author': 'Platon'}, ...]
>>> a.logout()

License

The whole project is licensed under MIT license.

Dependencies

• Python 2.x (tested on 2.7)
• LXML (Debian/Ubuntu package: python-lxml)