Sickle is lightweight OAI-PMH client library written in Python. It has been designed for conveniently retrieving data from OAI interfaces the Pythonic way:

>>> sickle = Sickle('http://elis.da.ulcc.ac.uk/cgi/oai2')
>>> records = sickle.ListRecords(metadataPrefix='oai_dc')

Most importantly, Sickle lets you iterate through OAI records without having to deal with things like result batches or resumptionTokens yourself:

>>> records.next()
<Record oai:eprints.rclis.org:4088>

pip install sickle

Dependencies:

• requests
• lxml

• Documentation
• Sickle @ GitHub