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 # CGSpace Statistics API
+A quick and dirty REST API to expose Solr view and download statistics for items in a DSpace repository.
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 Written and tested in Python 3.6. SolrClient (0.2.1) does not currently run in Python 3.7.0.
 
 ## Installation