Sample script to query oer bookmarking, used in spliced search as part of RIDLR OER project

get_bookmarks.py

import urllib2
import json as simplejson

BOOKMARKING_BASE_CONFIG = {'base_url':'http://oerbookmarking.ncl.ac.uk',
                           'api_key':'{{OER_BOOKMARKING_API_KEY}}',
                           'api_username':'{{OER_BOOKMARKING_API_USERNAME}}',
                           'api_format':'json',
                           'bookmark_path':'/api/v1/bookmark/'
}

def get_oerbookmarking_resources(query):
    BOOKMARKING_BASE_CONFIG['limit'] = 50
    BOOKMARKING_BASE_CONFIG['query'] = query
    api_url = "%(base_url)s%(bookmark_path)s"\
              "?api_key=%(api_key)s"\
              "&username=%(api_username)s"\
              "&format=%(api_format)s"\
              "&limit=%(limit)s"\
              "&title__icontains=%(query)s" % BOOKMARKING_BASE_CONFIG
    req = urllib2.Request(api_url)
    opener = urllib2.build_opener()
    f = opener.open(req)
    results = simplejson.load(f)
    data_set = results['objects']

    print data_set


if __name__ == '__main__':
    get_oerbookmarking_resources('jisc')