A simple script to get some data from europeana.

europeana.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import json
import urllib2

   
f = open('europeana.csv','w')

# Insert key replacing the -> ######

response = json.load(urllib2.urlopen("http://www.europeana.eu/api/v2/search.json?start=1&rows=100&wskey=#######&query=(cyanotype+OR+cyanotypie+OR+cyanotypi)"))

# CSV header
f.write("country,title,year,label,language,provider,score,type,link,image,dataProvider")
f.write("\n")
# Loop
for item in response["items"]:
	f.write(item["country"][0]+",") 
	###
	if "title" in item:
		f.write(item["title"][0].encode('utf-8').replace(",", "")+",")
	else:
		f.write("none,")
	###
	if "year" in item:
		f.write(item["year"][0]+",")
	else:
		f.write("none,")
	###		
	if "edmConceptPrefLabelLangAware" in item:
		f.write(item["edmConceptPrefLabelLangAware"]["en"][0].replace(",", "") +",")
	else:
		f.write("none,")
	###
	if "language" in item:
		f.write(item["language"][0]+",")
	else:
		f.write("none,")
	###
	if "provider" in item:
		f.write(item["provider"][0]+",")
	else:
		f.write("none,")
	###
	if "score" in item:
		f.write(str(item["score"])+",")
	else:
		f.write("none,")
	### 
	if "type" in item:
		f.write(item["type"] +",")
	else:
		f.write("none,")
	### 
	if "link" in item:
		f.write(item["link"] +",")
	else:
		f.write("none,")
	### 
	if "edmPreview" in item:
		f.write(item["edmPreview"][0] +",")
	else:
		f.write("none,")
	### 
	if "dataProvider" in item:
		f.write(item["dataProvider"][0].encode('utf-8'))
	else:
		f.write("none")
		

	f.write("\n")
f.close()