README.md

csw-client

A very simple CSW client

Prerequisite

• Node.js >= 8.0

Features

• Fetch capabilities
• Fetch records
• Harvest (w/ Stream API)
• Support ISO 19139 (including Inspire profile)
• Support Dublin Core

Installation

npm install csw-client

Usage

Create a client

const csw = require('csw-client');
const client = csw('http://your-csw-server.tld/csw', options);

Options

Name	Description	Type	Default value
userAgent	User-Agent string you want to use in requests	string	"CSWBot"
gzip	enable compression	boolean	true
timeout	requests will fail after X ms	integer	disabled

Harvest

Stream API

client.harvest(options).pipe(outputStream);

Alternative

client.harvest(options)
    .on('record', record => console.log(record.type))
    .on('error', err => console.error(err))
    .on('end', () => console.log('Finished!'))
    .resume();

Options

Name	Description	Type	Default value
step	number of records asked by GetRecords request	integer	20
concurrency	number of concurrent GetRecords requests	integer	5

Events

Name	Description	Properties
record	a new record is found	type: record type body: parsed value
started	harvesting has started	none
failed	harvesting has failed	none
end	harvesting has ended	none