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Reasons of failure

There are several reasons why Datahugger can't download the contents of a DOI. Besides internet and network errors, reasons for failure include (but not limited to):

  • Not a valid DOI or URL
  • DOI doesn't point to a data repository
  • Data repository isn't in the list of supported repositories.
  • DOI is no longer available in the repository.

Not supported error message

When a repository is not supported, an error is returned (exit 1).

datahugger https://hdl.handle.net/10622/NHJZUD data

Error: Data protocol for https://hdl.handle.net/10622/NHJZUD not found.

Do you think this is a data repository that needs to be supported?
Please request support in the issue tracker:

  https://github.com/J535D165/datahugger/issues/new/choose

datahugger.get("10.5061/dryad.x3ffbg7m8", "data")

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/Users/User/projects/datahugger/api.py", line 263, in get
    return _base_request(
  File "/Users/User/projects/datahugger/api.py", line 205, in _base_request
    raise ValueError(f"Data protocol for {url} not found.")
ValueError: Data protocol for https://hdl.handle.net/10622/NHJZUD not found.

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