DSpace stores item view and download events in a Solr "statistics" core. This information is available for use in the various DSpace user interfaces, but is not exposed externally via any APIs. The DSpace 4/5/6 REST API, for example, only exposes metadata about communities, collections, items, and bitstreams.
- If your DSpace is version 4 or 5, use dspace-statistics-api v1.1.1
- If your DSpace is version 6+, use dspace-statistics-api v1.2.0 or greater
- Please make sure your statistics have been migrated from integers to UUIDs with the solr-upgrade-statistics-6x command
This project contains an indexer and a Falcon-based web application to make the item, community, and collection statistics available via a simple REST API. You can read more about the Solr queries used to gather the item view and download statistics on the DSpace wiki.
If you use the DSpace Statistics API please cite:
Orth, A. 2018. DSpace statistics API. Nairobi, Kenya: ILRI. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/99143.
- Python 3.8+
- PostgreSQL version 9.5+ (due to
UPSERTsupport) - DSpace with Solr usage statistics enabled (tested with 5.8+ and 6.3)
Create a Python virtual environment and install the dependencies:
$ python3 -m venv venv
$ source venv/bin/activate
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
Set up the environment variables for Solr and PostgreSQL:
$ export SOLR_SERVER=http://localhost:8080/solr
$ export DATABASE_NAME=dspacestatistics
$ export DATABASE_USER=dspacestatistics
$ export DATABASE_PASS=dspacestatistics
$ export DATABASE_HOST=localhost
Index the Solr statistics core to populate the PostgreSQL database:
$ python -m dspace_statistics_api.indexer
Run the REST API:
$ gunicorn dspace_statistics_api.app
Test to see if there are any statistics:
$ curl 'http://localhost:8000/items?limit=1'
Install development packages using pip:
$ pip install -r requirements-dev.txt
Run tests:
$ pytest
There are example systemd service and timer units in the contrib directory. The API service listens on localhost by default so you will need to expose it publicly using a web server like nginx.
An example nginx configuration is:
server {
#...
location ~ /rest/statistics/?(.*) {
access_log /var/log/nginx/statistics.log;
proxy_pass http://statistics_api/$1$is_args$args;
}
}
upstream statistics_api {
server 127.0.0.1:5000;
}
This would expose the API at /rest/statistics.
The API exposes the following endpoints:
- GET
/— return a basic API documentation page. - GET
/items— return views and downloads for all items that Solr knows about¹. Acceptslimitandpagequery parameters for pagination of results (limitmust be an integer between 1 and 100, andpagemust be an integer greater than or equal to 0). - POST
/items— return views and downloads for an arbitrary list of items with an optional date range. Acceptslimit,page,dateFrom, anddateToparameters². - GET
/item/id— return views and downloads for a single item (idmust be a UUID). Returns HTTP 404 if an item id is not found. - GET
/communities— return views and downloads for all communities that Solr knows about¹. Acceptslimitandpagequery parameters for pagination of results (limitmust be an integer between 1 and 100, andpagemust be an integer greater than or equal to 0). - POST
/communities— return views and downloads for an arbitrary list of communities with an optional date range. Acceptslimit,page,dateFrom, anddateToparameters². - GET
/community/id— return views and downloads for a single community (idmust be a UUID). Returns HTTP 404 if a community id is not found. - GET
/collections— return views and downloads for all collections that Solr knows about¹. Acceptslimitandpagequery parameters for pagination of results (limitmust be an integer between 1 and 100, andpagemust be an integer greater than or equal to 0). - POST
/collections— return views and downloads for an arbitrary list of collections with an optional date range. Acceptslimit,page,dateFrom, anddateToparameters². - GET
/collection/id— return views and downloads for a single collection (idmust be a UUID). Returns HTTP 404 if an collection id is not found.
The id is the internal UUID for an item, community, or collection. You can get these from the standard DSpace REST API.
¹ We are querying the Solr statistics core, which technically only knows about items, communities, or collections that have either views or downloads. If an item, community, or collection is not present here you can assume it has zero views and zero downloads, but not necessarily that it does not exist in the repository.
² POST requests to /items, /communities, and /collections should be in JSON format with the following parameters (substitute the "items" list for communities or collections accordingly):
{
"limit": 100, // optional, integer between 0 and 100, default 100
"page": 0, // optional, integer greater than 0, default 0
"dateFrom": "2020-01-01T00:00:00Z", // optional, default *
"dateTo": "2020-09-09T00:00:00Z", // optional, default *
"items": [
"f44cf173-2344-4eb2-8f00-ee55df32c76f",
"2324aa41-e9de-4a2b-bc36-16241464683e",
"8542f9da-9ce1-4614-abf4-f2e3fdb4b305",
"0fe573e7-042a-4240-a4d9-753b61233908"
]
}
- Better logging
- Version API (or at least include a /version endpoint?)
- Probably use /status with a version in the response
- Use JSON in PostgreSQL
- Add top items endpoint, perhaps
/top/itemsor/items/top?- Actually we could add
/items?limit=10&sort=views
- Actually we could add
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