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

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Hi Melissa

THANK YOU! I used the COUNTER 5 Harvester, and I miss it!

I don't keep any of that data in a separate file, but it seems like a
useful tool. For me, just the COUNTER required things would be good enough.

On Fri, May 2, 2025 at 11:25 AM Electronic Resources in Libraries
discussion list via Eril-l <eril-l at lists.eril-l.org> wrote:

> 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!
>
>
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