Importing media into Avalon via API Key

How to upload transcripts and pdfs of media already hosted on Avalon.

Download relevant repository

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Download relevant Avalon metadata

In the terminal, enter pyavalon get_file_ids_from_a_collection -c "{id of the collection}" -i {pre or prod}.

This will generate an output.csv with the following columns: “Parent work”, “Creator”, “Contributor”, “File id”, “File title”, “Work title”, “Subject”, “Rights”, “Identifier”, “Publisher”, and “derivative”.

Create input.csv

Create an input.csv with four columns: id, filename, label, and type.

  • id should be the same as the File id in the previous output.csv

  • filename should be a filepath. If importing pdfs, the filename must start with /Users.

  • label is the name you want the file to appear with when it’s online. It is recommended for the label to be “Captions in English” or “Transcript in English”.

  • type can only be caption, transcript, or pdf.

Push into Avalon

In the terminal, enter pyavalon upload-supplemental-files -i {pre or prod} -c "{path to .csv file}".