dspace-statistics-api/README.md

DSpace Statistics API

A quick and dirty REST API to expose Solr view and download statistics for items in a DSpace repository.

Written and tested in Python 3.5, 3.6, and 3.7. Requires PostgreSQL version 9.5 or greater for UPSERT support.

Installation

Create a virtual environment and run it:

$ python -m venv venv
$ . venv/bin/activate
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
$ gunicorn app:api

Using the API

The API exposes the following endpoints:

• GET /items — return views and downloads for all items that Solr knows about¹. Accepts limit and page query parameters for pagination of results.
• GET /item/id — return views and downloads for a single item (id must be a positive integer). Returns HTTP 404 if an item id is not found.

¹ We are querying the Solr statistics core, which technically only knows about items that have either views or downloads.

Todo

• Add API documentation
• Close up DB connection when gunicorn shuts down gracefully
• Better logging
• Tests
• Use batch inserts to the DB)

License

This work is licensed under the GPLv3.