OAI-PMH TypeScript

An ESM-only OAI-PMH 2.0 harvester for Node.js 24 and newer.

The client targets the official OAI-PMH 2.0 protocol: https://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html

Installation

pnpm add @nondef/ts-oai-pmh
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Library Usage

import { OaiPmh } from "@nondef/ts-oai-pmh";

const oaiPmh = new OaiPmh({
  baseUrl: "https://export.arxiv.org/oai2",
});

const identify = await oaiPmh.identify();
console.log(identify.data.repositoryName);

for await (const header of oaiPmh.listIdentifiers({
  metadataPrefix: "arXiv",
  from: "2020-01-01",
  until: "2020-01-02",
})) {
  console.log(header.identifier);
}
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CLI Usage

oai-pmh identify https://export.arxiv.org/oai2
oai-pmh get-record https://export.arxiv.org/oai2 \
	--identifier oai:arXiv.org:1412.8544 \
	--metadata-prefix arXiv
oai-pmh list-identifiers https://export.arxiv.org/oai2 \
	--metadata-prefix arXiv \
	--from 2020-01-01 \
	--until 2020-01-02
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List commands emit newline-delimited JSON. Single-response commands emit one formatted JSON document.

Protocol Behavior

• Supports all six OAI-PMH 2.0 verbs: Identify, GetRecord, ListIdentifiers, ListMetadataFormats, ListRecords, and ListSets.
• Uses HTTP GET by default and can use POST with application/x-www-form-urlencoded via requestMethod: "POST".
• Validates verb-specific argument rules before sending requests.
• Treats resumption tokens as opaque and exclusive.
• Preserves OAI-PMH provider errors as OaiPmhError instances with the provider error code.
• Supports OAI-PMH date strings in YYYY-MM-DD and YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ format.

Development

pnpm install
pnpm run format:check
pnpm run lint
pnpm run typecheck
pnpm run build
pnpm test
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Default tests are fixture-based and do not call public OAI-PMH providers.