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-rw-r--r--python/fatcat_tools/harvest/doi_registrars.py26
-rw-r--r--python/tests/harvest_crossref.py2
2 files changed, 24 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/python/fatcat_tools/harvest/doi_registrars.py b/python/fatcat_tools/harvest/doi_registrars.py
index d2d71d3c..3acb7d96 100644
--- a/python/fatcat_tools/harvest/doi_registrars.py
+++ b/python/fatcat_tools/harvest/doi_registrars.py
@@ -16,12 +16,32 @@ from .harvest_common import HarvestState, requests_retry_session
class HarvestCrossrefWorker:
"""
- Notes on crossref API:
+ Crossref API date fields (and our interpretation)::
- - from-index-date is the updated time
+ - https://github.com/CrossRef/rest-api-doc#filter-names
+ - *-index-date: "metadata indexed" is the API/index record update time
+ - *-deposit-date: "metadata last (re)deposited" is the catalog record update time
+ - *-update-date: "Metadata updated (Currently the same as *-deposit-date)"
+ - *-created-date: "metadata first deposited"
+ - *-pub-date (etc): publisher-supplied, not "meta-meta-data"
https://api.crossref.org/works?filter=from-index-date:2018-11-14&rows=2
+ Also from the REST API:
+
+ Notes on incremental metadata updates
+
+ When using time filters to retrieve periodic, incremental metadata
+ updates, the from-index-date filter should be used over
+ from-update-date, from-deposit-date, from-created-date and
+ from-pub-date. The timestamp that from-index-date filters on is
+ guaranteed to be updated every time there is a change to metadata
+ requiring a reindex.
+
+ However, when Crossref re-indexes tens of millions of rows, using
+ from-index-date can be very slow, taking several days to process a single
+ day of updates.
+
I think the design is going to have to be a cronjob or long-running job
(with long sleeps) which publishes "success through" to a separate state
queue, as simple YYYY-MM-DD strings.
@@ -87,7 +107,7 @@ class HarvestCrossrefWorker:
return Producer(producer_conf)
def params(self, date_str):
- filter_param = 'from-index-date:{},until-index-date:{}'.format(
+ filter_param = 'from-update-date:{},until-update-date:{}'.format(
date_str, date_str)
return {
'filter': filter_param,
diff --git a/python/tests/harvest_crossref.py b/python/tests/harvest_crossref.py
index 52aa7b81..e902cda5 100644
--- a/python/tests/harvest_crossref.py
+++ b/python/tests/harvest_crossref.py
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ def test_crossref_harvest_date(mocker):
assert "mailto:test@fatcat.wiki" in responses.calls[0].request.headers['User-Agent']
# check that correct date param was passed as expected
- assert "filter=from-index-date%3A2019-02-03" in responses.calls[0].request.url
+ assert "filter=from-update-date%3A2019-02-03" in responses.calls[0].request.url
# check that we published the expected number of DOI objects were published
# to the (mock) kafka topic