README.md

ONIX Bot

Description

This Bot does the following tasks:

• Validates and check if its a correct ONIX Record.
• Extracts product records from the ONIX Record and check if a duplicate does exist on Open Library.
• Add records which do not exist to Open Library.

General Scripts

• onixparser.py

Data dependent Scripts

None

Steps followed:

• Install requirements using pip with the following commands.

cd onix-bot/
pip install -r requirements.txt

• Using a default file: Run the following command to run the file on a test ONIX Record which can be found here.

python onixparser.py

• Using a custom ONIX File: Run the following command to run the script on a custom file.

python onixparser.py <custom-file>.xml

Next Steps on ONIX Bot

1. Start with referencing the old-onix-bot directory present which has the earlier code from ONIX Bot.

Issues for ONIX Bot

1. Use ONIX Reference Code List to parse and obtain Language Codes - #19
2. Add functionalities to ONIX Bot - #12
3. Using iterparse to avoid running out of memory errors - #17