[ckan-dev] ckanext-archiver

Wed Apr 30 05:15:21 UTC 2014

The purpose of the extension is to archive resources to a different place.
Since ckanext-archiver does basic archiving, it's used by other extensions
that need to act on the downloaded resource.

Nigel Babu
Developer, Open Knowledge

On 29 April 2014 21:24, Fabrizio Fornari <ckanappoggio at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> can anyone explain me what actually ckanext-archiver does?
>
> From the documentation:
> "The CKAN Archiver Extension provides a set of Celery tasks for
> downloading and saving CKAN resources. It can be configured to run
> automatically, saving any new resources that are added to a CKAN instance
> (and saving any resources when their URL is changed). It can also be run
> manually from the command line in order to archive resources for specific
> datasets, or to archive all resources in a CKAN instance."
>
> I need ckanext-archiver for using the extension qa (ok) but I don't get
> why the archiver should download, update resources and stuff like that,
> which is the purpose of this extension?
>
> Thank you!
>
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