fetch_from_csw.py

import os
import requests

from lxml import etree

if __name__ == '__main__':
    csw_url = 'https://catalog.data.gov/csw'
    folder_name = 'data_gov'
    max_records = 181227
    params = {
        'service': 'CSW',
        'version': '2.0.2',
        'request': 'GetRecords',
        'typenames': 'csw:Record',
        'elementsetname': 'full',
        'resulttype': 'results',
        'maxrecords': '100'
    }

    xml_string = (
        '<csw:Transaction xmlns:csw="http://www.opengis.net/cat/csw/2.0.2" '
        'xmlns:ows="http://www.opengis.net/ows" '
        'xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" '
        'xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.opengis.net/cat/csw/2.0.2 '
        'http://schemas.opengis.net/csw/3.0.0/CSW-publication.xsd" '
        'service="CSW" version="2.0.2" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/'
        'elements/1.1/" xmlns:dct="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" >\n'
        '  <csw:Insert>\n'
    )


    end_part = ('  </csw:Insert>\n'
        '</csw:Transaction>\n'
    )

    for start_position in range(1, max_records + 1, 10):
        print 'Getting records from position {0}'.format(start_position)
        params['startposition'] = start_position
        try:
            content = requests.get(csw_url, params, timeout=30).content
            content = etree.tostring(etree.fromstring(content), pretty_print=True)
            csw_records = '\n'.join(content.split('\n')[3:-3])
            # csw_records = content.split('"full">')[1].split('</csw:SearchResults')[0]
            csw_request = xml_string + csw_records +  '\n' + end_part   
            # Saving.
            if not os.path.isdir(folder_name):
                os.mkdir(folder_name)

            with open(os.path.join(folder_name, 'file_{0}.xml'.format(start_position)), 'wb') as f:
                f.write(csw_request)

        except Exception as e:
            print 'Error...'