scholrly/orcid-python

A simple wrapper around the ORCID.org API.

orcid-python's Issues

AttributeError - passing function rather than dict?

I'm really confused by this. I had everything working just fine, just as it was supposed to according to the readme and then I somehow managed to break something. So on a clean VM running Python 2.7 I get the following and this is now what happens regardless of the system I'm running. As I say, it was working just fine which is what is confusing me:

vagrant@iPythonNotebook:/vagrant$ python
Python 2.7.3 (default, Apr 20 2012, 22:39:59) 
[GCC 4.6.3] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import orcid
[...]
>>> john = orcid.get('0000-0002-4510-0385')
>>> print john.family_name
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/orcid/utils.py", line 34, in getter
    return dict_value_from_path(cur_dict, path)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/orcid/utils.py", line 4, in dict_value_from_path
    cur_dict = cur_dict.get(key, {})
AttributeError: 'function' object has no attribute 'get'

License for utils.py

Hi, I've used your utils.py file as a library in another API wrapper (for the PLOS ALM API) and just wanted to check with you about the licensing. I'm planning to release my code under an Apache license if possible.

Cheers

Cameron

Tier-2 API methods

It'd be great to have a full, OAuth-based Tier-2 client. Public methods first, though!

Update for Python3

It would be good to update this project for Python3, but it looks like it's not really under maintenance anymore so it might be better to put a disclaimer on the README for that.

Creating orcids

Obviously the idea of this is not (just yet) to support things like using the Member API to create ORCID-s. I, however, am working on just such a thing in Python, with explicit focus on record creation. It seems better to integrate this kind of thing into an existing library.

I wanted to check whether support for record creation was planned or already in the works before forking though.

UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 12: ordinal not in range(128)

Hi,

I have tested your tool I got following errors.

Python 2.7.6 (default, Jun 22 2015, 17:58:13)
[GCC 4.8.2] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

import orcid
brinkmann = orcid.get('0000-0003-3083-2775')
print brinkmann
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 12: ordinal not in range(128)
print brinkmann.name
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
AttributeError: 'Author' object has no attribute 'name'
print brinkmann.family_name
Brinkmann
print brinkmann.publications
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "orcid/rest.py", line 107, in publications
self._load_works()
File "orcid/rest.py", line 101, in _load_works
+ '/orcid-works', headers = BASE_HEADERS)
TypeError: cannot concatenate 'str' and 'NoneType' objects