mfs

Metadata fetcher (software)

This project aims to be a tool for fetching all kinds of scholarly metadata. It uses TSV-formatted output which contains the raw data from the API-call.

Format:

type  id  result  source  data

Fields are separated by tabs (\t).

Alpha quality software, use at your own risk!

I'm using this project to learn Rust, don't expect fully idiomatic, high quality code. If you have any advice, please create an issue. Thanks!

Installation

I assume the binary works only under 64bit Linux right now. I have no Mac / Windows systems lying around and can't test it at the moment. No idea about cross-compilation either and I'm pretty sure the code is using some Unix-only bits at the moment to handle command line properly.

You can download a 64bit Linux binary, available here: https://codeberg.org/weirdfox/mfs/releases

You can install it from crates.io via cargo as well:

cargo install mfs

Usage

Fetching metadata for a DOI in the source format:

mfs pub doi "10.1016/s0009-2614(02)00639-5" -s datacite -s crossref -o output.tsv

• -s can be specified multiple times, valid values are crossref, openalex and datacite. Sources will be checked in the order specified in the command and the first match will be used.
• -o can be used to redirect the output to a file with the specified path.

DOI can be provided via stdin:

echo "10.1016/s0009-2614(02)00639-5" | mfs pub doi -s datacite -s crossref

Multiple DOIs can be provided via a text file, containing one DOI per line:

doi.txt

10.1016/s0009-2614(02)00639-5
10.3132/43242413242143
10.14454/FXWS-0523

cat "doi.txt" | mfs pub doi -s datacite -s crossref

Right now only publication metadata, addressable via doi are available. This will be expanded in the future.