irods_figshare

playground for irods figshare integration.

irods_to_figshare.py script is a PoC for copying files from iRODS to figshare via the figshare API.

Figshare access token

Create a figshare account, login and then access the Aplications section. There you can generate a Personal Access token that can be used to access the figshare API.

Required configuration

Check out irods_figshare.conf.json for some sample values.

Running the script

Requires python-irodsclient available here. Make sure that the file passed as argument to the script exists in iRODS and that it has associated the following metadata fields: title, description, tags. The script will search for and use these in order to create the figshare article.

Execute the script: python irods_to_figshare.py figshare_test.txt