figshare

This is a simple client for the figshare API in python. Currently the following actions are implemented

• create_article
• update_article
• get_article_details
• list_files
• get_file_details
• retrieve_files_from_article

Install

git clone https://github.com/cognoma/figshare.git
python setup.py install

For development, I recommend:

python setup.py develop

Execution

To use this Python module, here's a demonstration of initiating the API and retrieving information from Figshare API. This was done using iPython, but other Python-based methods will work as well:

from figshare.figshare import Figshare
fs = Figshare()
article_id = 4757131
fs.get_article_details(article_id)

That will produce a dictionary object. Here's a snippet of the first and last few lines:

{'defined_type_name': 'dataset',
'embargo_date': None,
'citation': 'Lake, Sean; Wright, Edward L.; Assef, Roberto J.; Jarrett, Thomas H.; Petty, Sara; Stanford, Spencer A.; et al. (2019): Evolving Extragalactic Background and Luminosity Density. figshare. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.4757131.v1',
'url_private_api': 'https://api.figshare.com/v2/account/articles/4757131',
'status': 'public',
'created_date': '2019-08-07T07:54:50Z',
'group_id': None,
'is_metadata_record': False,
'modified_date': '2019-08-07T07:54:51Z'}

Dependencies

The following python libraries need to be installed

• requests