Figshare

A library for interacting with Figshare API.

CLI

npm install -g figshare

figshare download [dir] [--raw]

Download an article's assets and metadata to a given directory. Will create a datapackage.json by default, and uses figshare's article spec if --raw supplied.

$ figshare download 1559145 grassland_data
$ cd grassland_data/
$ ls
Ecology-Lab2-Group3-DataSet2.xlsx
datapackage.json

Also can work if you give the HTML URL link:

$ figshare download http://figshare.com/articles/Group_4_Dataset_2_Grassland_data_of_the_plant_Purple_Aster_Aster_prenathoides_/1559145

figshare search

$ figshare search hello
1444470 UGH HATE FIGSHARE
1444440 Hello
1351281 <i>Shigella</i> serotypes identified in the study.
1351279 Distribution of organism identified in children with watery or bloody diarrhea by age group.
1351282 <i>Salmonella</i> serotypes identified in the study (N = 355).
1351284 Enteric Bacterial Pathogens in Children with Diarrhea in Niger: Diversity and Antimicrobial Resistance
1115016 An Adaptive Hello Messaging and Multipath Route  Maintenance in On-Demand MANET Routing Protocol
1100253 An Energy Efficient Acknowledgement Based Ids For Manet
1098621 A Beaconless Routing Approach for Energy Conservation in  Wireless Sensor Network

JavaScript

var figshare = require('figshare')

figshare(opts)

Options:

uri: can be changed if you have your own deployment. Default 'http://api.figshare.com'

version: defaults to 1, there is only one version of figshare search

figshare.get(id, cb)

Hits the figshare api and gets the article with the given id. Will also work with the html url.

figshare.get(id, function (err, article) {
  if (err) throw err
  console.log(article)
})

figshare.download(article, dir, args, cb)

Downloads the article.

article: the article as returned by figshare.get

dir: the directory to put the data into. Will create it if it doesn't exist.

figshare.download(article, dir, args, function (err) {
  if (err) throw err
  console.error('Download complete.')
})

figshare.search(query)

var stream = figshare.stream({fulltext: 'your fulltext query text here'})
stream.on('data', function (data) {
  console.log(data.items) // each 'data' is a page from the figshare search api
})