[ckan-dev] insertion of datasets

Fri Dec 9 03:01:34 UTC 2011

Hi,

I have just installed ckan and I am facing some problems while inserting
data.

Please let me know the exact procedure to insert datasets using web
interface and harvest methods.

I tried to execute the python example given in the package installation and
I am getting some errors.

The example is:

import ckanclient
# Instantiate the CKAN client.
ckan = ckanclient.CkanClient(api_key=my_api_key,
base_location="http://myckaninstance.com/api")
# Describe the dataset.
dataset_entity = {
      'name': my_dataset_name,
      'url': my_dataset_url,
      'download_url': my_dataset_download_url,
      'tags': my_dataset_keywords,
      'notes': my_dataset_long_description,
}
# Register the dataset.
ckan.package_register_post(dataset_entity)

The errors which I get are:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "script1.py", line 13, in <module>
    ckan.package_register_post(dataset_entity)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/ckanclient/__init__.py",
line 374, in package_register_post
    self.open_url(url, data, headers)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/ckanclient/__init__.py",
line 348, in open_url
    raise CkanApiError(self.last_message)
ckanclient.CkanApiError: [Errno -2] Name or service not known

Please can you let me know what is the problem.

Kind Regards,
Rucha.
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