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Command line tool for convenient access to Coursera Research Data Exports.

Project description

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This project is a library consisting of a command line interface and a client for interacting with Coursera’s research exports. Up to date documentation of the data provided by Coursera for research purposes is available on gitbooks , Coursera Data Exports Guide.

Installation

To install this package, execute:

pip install courseraresearchexports

pip is a python package manager.

If you do not have pip installed on your machine, please follow the installation instructions for your platform.

If you experience issues installing with pip, we recommend that you use the python 2.7 distribution of Anaconda and try the above command again or to use a virtualenv for installation:

virtualenv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install courseraresearchexports

Note: the containers subcommand requires docker to already be installed on your machine. Please see the docker installation instructions for platform specific information.

autocomplete

To enable tab autocomplete, please install argcomplete using pip install autocomplete and execute activate-global-python-argcomplete. Open a new shell and press tab for autocomplete functionality.

See the argcomplete documentation for more details.

Setup

Authorize your application using courseraoauth2client:

courseraoauth2client config authorize --app manage_research_exports

To use the containers functionality, a docker instance must be running. Please see the docker getting started guide for installation instructions for your platform.

Upgrade

If you have a previously installed version of courseracourseexports, execute:

pip install courseraresearchexports --upgrade

This will upgrade your installation to the newest version.

Command Line Interface

The project includes a command line tool. Run:

courseraresearchexports -h

for a complete list of features, flags, and documentation. Similarly, documentation for the subcommands listed below is also available (e.g. for jobs) by running:

courseraresearchexports jobs -h

jobs

Submit a research export request or retrieve the status of pending and completed export jobs.

request

Creates an data export job request and return the export request id. To create a data export requests for all available tables for a course:

courseraresearchexports jobs request tables --course_slug $COURSE_SLUG \
    --purpose "testing data export"

Replace $COURSE_SLUG with your course slug (The course slug is the part after /learn in the url. For https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning, the slug is machine-learning).

You may also use –course_id if you know your course id. This is also necessary for non publically available courses.

If a more limited set of data is required, you can specify which schemas are included with the export. (e.g. for the demographics tables):

courseraresearchexports jobs request tables --course_slug $COURSE_SLUG \
    --schemas demographics --purpose "testing data export"

For more information on the available tables/schemas, please refer to the Coursera Data Exports Guide.

If you are a data coordinator, you can request that user ids are linked between domains of the data export:

courseraresearchexports jobs request tables --course_slug $COURSE_SLUG \
    --purpose "testing data export" --user_id_hashing linked

Data coordinators can also request clickstream exports:

courseraresearchexports jobs request clickstream --course_slug $COURSE_SLUG \
    --interval 2016-09-01 2016-09-02 --purpose "testing data export"

By default, clickstream exports will cache results for days already exported. To ignore the cache and request exports for the entire date range, pass in the flag --ignore_existing.

We have 2 rate limits for creating jobs: up to 15 jobs per hour per user, and for each scope (course/specialization/group), one request per hour.

get_all

Lists the details and status of all data export requests that you have made:

courseraresearchexports jobs get_all

get

Retrieve the details and status of an export request:

courseraresearchexports jobs get $EXPORT_REQUEST_ID

download

Download a completed table or clickstream to your local destination:

courseraresearchexports jobs download $EXPORT_REQUEST_ID

containers

create

Creates a docker container using the postgres image and loads export data into a postgres database on the container. To create a docker container from an export, first request an export using the jobs command. Then, using the $EXPORT_REQUEST_ID, create a docker container with:

courseraresearchexports containers create --export_request_id $EXPORT_REQUEST_ID

This will download the data export and load all the data into the database running on the container. This may take some time depending on the size of your export. To create a docker container with an already downloaded export (please decompress the archive first):

courseraresearchexports containers create --export_data_folder /path/to/data_export/

After creation use the list command to check the status of the container and view the container name, database name, address and port to connect to the database. Use the db connect $CONTAINER_NAME command to open a psql shell.

list

Lists the details of all the containers created by courseraresearchexports:

courseraresearchexports containers list

start

Start a container:

courseraresearchexports containers start $CONTAINER_NAME

stop

Stop a container:

courseraresearchexports containers stop $CONTAINER_NAME

remove

Remove a container:

courseraresearchexports containers remove $CONTAINER_NAME

db

connect

Open a shell to a postgres database:

courseraresearchexports db connect $CONTAINER_NAME

create_view

Create a view in the postgres database. We are planning to include commonly used denormalized views as part of this project. To create one of these views (i.e. for the demographic_survey view):

courseraresearchexports db create_view $CONTAINER_NAME --view_name demographic_survey

If you have your own sql script that you’d like to create as a view run:

courseraresearchexports db create_view $CONTAINER_NAME --sql_file /path/to/sql/file/new_view.sql

This will create a view using the name of the file as the name of the view, in this case “new_view”.

Note: as user_id columns vary with partner and user id hashing, please refer to the exports guide for SQL formatting guidelines.

unload_to_csv

Export a table or view to a csv file. For example, if the demographic_survey was created in the above section, use this commmand to create a csv:

courseraresearchexports db unload_to_csv $CONTAINER_NAME --relation demographic_survey --dest /path/to/dest/

list_tables

List all the tables present inside a dockerized database:

courseraresearchexports db list_tables $CONTAINER_NAME

list_views

List all the views present inside a dockerized database:

courseraresearchexports db list_views $CONTAINER_NAME

Bugs / Issues / Feature Requests

Please us the github issue tracker to document any bugs or other issues you encounter while using this tool.

Developing / Contributing

We recommend developing courseraresearchexports within a python virtualenv. To get your environment set up properly, do the following:

virtualenv venv
source venv/bin/activate
python setup.py develop
pip install -r test_requirements.txt

Tests

To run tests, simply run: nosetests, or tox.

Code Style

Code should conform to pep8 style requirements. To check, simply run:

pep8 courseraresearchexports tests

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