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Installation

dataciteapi is a command line program run from a shell like Bash. It allows you to retrieve JSON works objects from the DataCite API via DataCites REST API.

This is generalized instructions for a release. For deployment suggestions see NOTES.md

Quick install with curl or irm

If you are running macOS or Linux you can install released versions of crossrefapi with the following curl command.

curl https://caltechlibrary.github.io/crossrefapi/installer.sh

On Windows the install command in Powershell is

irm https://caltechlibrary.github.io/crossrefapi/installer.ps1 | iex

Compiled version

Compiled versions are available for Mac OS X (amd64 and M1 processor, macos-amd64, macos-arm64), Linux (amd64 process, linux-amd64), Windows (amd64 processor, windows-amd64) and Rapsberry Pi (arm7 processor, raspbian-arm7)

VERSION_NUMBER is a symantic version number (e.g. v0.1.2)

For all the released version go to the project page on Github and click latest release

https://github.com/caltechlibrary/dataciteapi/releases/latest

Platform Zip Filename
Windows dataciteapi-VERSION_NUMBER-windows-amd64.zip
Mac OS X dataciteapi-VERSION_NUMBER-macos-amd64.zip
Linux/Intel dataciteapi-VERSION_NUMBER-linux-amd64.zip
Raspbery Pi dataciteapi-VERSION_NUMBER-raspbian-arm7.zip

The basic recipe

Mac OS X

  1. Download the zip file
  2. Unzip the zip file
  3. Copy the executables to $HOME/bin (or a folder in your path)
  4. Make sure the new location in in our path
  5. Test

Here’s an example of the commands run in the Terminal App after downloading the zip file.

    cd Downloads/
    unzip dataciteapi-*-macos-amd64.zip
    mkdir -p $HOME/bin
    cp -v bin/* $HOME/bin/
    export PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH
    dataciteapi -version

Windows

  1. Download the zip file
  2. Unzip the zip file
  3. Copy the executables to $HOME/bin (or a folder in your path)
  4. Test

Here’s an example of the commands run in from the Bash shell on Windows 10 after downloading the zip file.

    cd Downloads/
    unzip dataciteapi-*-windows-amd64.zip
    mkdir -p $HOME/bin
    cp -v bin/* $HOME/bin/
    export PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH
    dataciteapi -version

Linux

  1. Download the zip file
  2. Unzip the zip file
  3. Copy the executables to $HOME/bin (or a folder in your path)
  4. Test

Here’s an example of the commands run in from the Bash shell after downloading the zip file.

    cd Downloads/
    unzip dataciteapi-*-linux-amd64.zip
    mkdir -p $HOME/bin
    cp -v bin/* $HOME/bin/
    export PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH
    dataciteapi -version

Raspberry Pi

Released version is for a Raspberry Pi 2 or later use (i.e. requires ARM 7 support).

  1. Download the zip file
  2. Unzip the zip file
  3. Copy the executables to $HOME/bin (or a folder in your path)
  4. Test

Here’s an example of the commands run in from the Bash shell after downloading the zip file.

    cd Downloads/
    unzip dataciteapi-*-raspbian-arm7.zip
    mkdir -p $HOME/bin
    cp -v bin/* $HOME/bin/
    export PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH
    dataciteapi -version

Compiling from source

dataciteapi is “go gettable”. Use the “go get” command to download the dependant packages as well as dataciteapi’s source code.

    go get -u github.com/caltechlibrary/dataciteapi/...

Or clone the repstory and then compile

    cd
    git clone https://github.com/caltechlibrary/dataciteapi src/github.com/caltechlibrary/dataciteapi
    cd src/github.com/caltechlibrary/dataciteapi
    make
    make test
    make install

Compilation assumes go v1.16