[Eril-l] How do you manage your COUNTER SUSHI API credentials (customer_id etc.)

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Hi Melissa,

I’m glad that you are releasing a COUNTER 5.1 harvester. I assume it will be open source, like the previous version you created. ❤

I now use CELUS and am delighted with it, so am not the core audience for your question.  That said, when I was configuring my instance of your COUNTER 5.0 harvester, we did use a spreadsheet to organize and store our SUSHI credentials.  At the time, I was less familiar with SUSHI credentials, and the process and format were quire manageable.

Will your new tool pull in the Base_URL and other information from the COUNTER Registry<https://registry.countermetrics.org/>?

Wild idea for any vendors listening: it would be extraordinarily useful for you to send the SUSHI/COUNTER API credential/info to your eResources Librarian contacts annually or whenever you make changes or expire account credentials.

Appreciatively,
Athena


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Hi, all.
I am somewhat close to releasing my COUNTER 5.1 harvester. Just to make sure I'm making something that people can actually use, it would be helpful for me to have a sense of how you record/maintain your API credentials.  Right now I'm assuming people would be able to populate a "tsv" (tab-delimited) file, eg in Google Sheets or Excel then export as tsv.
Someone I showed this to expressed skepticism about that assumption. So I figured I'd just ask you all.

If you are downloading all of your COUNTER reports using the vendors' interactive dashboards, you might not be recording your SUSHI creds at all. In that case, if this is something that interests you, I'd ask you if my tsv plan would be workable for you.

To give this a bit of context, here are the column heading for the relevant data you'd need to maintain:
Name  Base_URL    Customer_ID Requestor_ID      API_Key     Platform    Version     delay retry

The first 3 are the only COUNTER-required ones, and my program also requires Version which is just "5.1".

Thanks in advance for any responses!


Melissa Belvadi
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