Get all the ASPACE resources and their children too

gistfile1.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'json'
require 'rest_client'

# point this to your AS backend
BACKEND_URL = "http://localhost:8089"
TOKEN = { "X-ArchivesSpace-Session" => JSON.parse( RestClient.post "#{BACKEND_URL}/users/admin/login", { password: 'admin'} )["session"] }

# Directory to dump JSON files
OUTPUT_DIR = "/tmp"

# recursively loads the children
def rear_child( child )
    child["children"].map! { |grandchild| rear_child(grandchild) }
    # adds the extra json values from the childs full record
    child.merge! JSON( RestClient.get( "#{BACKEND_URL}/#{ child["record_uri"]}", TOKEN ) )
    child
end

# get a list of repos
repos = JSON.parse( RestClient.get "#{BACKEND_URL}/repositories" ).collect { |repo| repo["uri"] }
repos.each do |repo|
    # iterate thru list of resources in the repo
    JSON(RestClient.get(  "#{BACKEND_URL}/#{repo}/resources?all_ids=true", TOKEN  )).each do |resource_id|
      # get the resource
      resource = JSON(RestClient.get(  "#{BACKEND_URL}/#{repo}/resources/#{resource_id}/tree",  TOKEN  ) )
      resource["children"].map! { |child| rear_child( child ) }
      outfile = File.join(OUTPUT_DIR, "#{resource["record_uri"].gsub("/","_")}.json") 
      puts "Exporting #{resource["record_uri"]} to #{outfile}" 
      File.open(outfile, "w") { |file| file << resource.to_json }  
    end        
end