Fetch scope and content data for the EHRI v1 API

scopecontent.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

import sys, requests

if len(sys.argv) < 1:
    print("usage: scopecontent.py <url>")
    sys.exit(1)

def scope_content(url):
    r = requests.get(url, headers={"Authorization": "Bearer EHRI-Dev"})
    data = r.json()

    for item in data["data"]:
        try:
            # fetch the ID and first description...
            id = item["id"]
            description = item["attributes"]["descriptions"][0]

            # highlight the heading in bold using these weird escape codes
            bold = "\033[1m"
            boldend = "\033[0;0m"

            print("%s%s [%s]%s" % (bold, description["name"], id, boldend))
            print("")
            print(description["scopeAndContent"])
            print("------------------------------------------------------")
        except Exception:
            # no scope and content found...
            pass

    # fetch the next page of data...
    if data.get("links") and data["links"].get("next"):
        scope_content(data["links"]["next"])

scope_content(sys.argv[1])