Philip Durbin 🚀 (Jun 23 2026 at 16:06): Philip Durbin 🚀 (Jun 23 2026 at 16:06):I see https://github.com/gdcc/pyDataverse/pull/235 got merged. What's the easiest way to install pyDataverse 0.4.0beta1?
Is it the "Install from local source (repository checkout)" option in the README at https://github.com/gdcc/pyDataverse ?
Jinjie Liu (Jun 24 2026 at 21:51):I try to test pyDataverse 0.4.0beta1 version. This link https://gdcc.github.io/pyDataverse/getting-started/ has only code examples. Do you have something like reference/API documents that have class/function signatures (parameter types/values, return types, etc.) so that I can test it systematically? Something like https://pydataverse.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference.html is for old 0.3 version. Is there the equivalent docs for the pyDataverse 0.4.0beta1 version?
Jan Range (Jun 25 2026 at 12:10):@Jinjie Liu, thanks for considering testing! There’s no API Reference available yet, but I can investigate if this can be generated using the new Docs backend, Astro, to make this easier.
Jan Range (Jun 29 2026 at 15:13):@Jinjie Liu I have now added the API Reference to the docs
https://gdcc.github.io/pyDataverse/reference/overview/
Jinjie Liu (Jul 15 2026 at 01:05):I have tested pyDataverse/dataverse/dataverse.py through two ways: (1) Expand and modify tests/dataverse/test_dataverse.py, run tests in pytest framework; and (2) Run examples on https://gdcc.github.io/pyDataverse/high-level/dataverse/ as a user. Some tests failed. I can report the testing results in tomorrow's meeting.
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Jul 15 2026 at 19:48):@Jan Range and Max (is he on Zulip?), I opened two issues that affected both me and @Jinjie Liu:
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Jul 15 2026 at 19:49):I'm happy to start separate topics here in #python for these if you like.
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Jul 15 2026 at 20:08):I also started a draft PR to make some tweaks to the docs: https://github.com/gdcc/pyDataverse/pull/242
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Jul 16 2026 at 14:00):I made a draft recipe for creating a dataset: https://github.com/gdcc/dataverse-recipes/pull/37
Jinjie Liu (Jul 17 2026 at 00:29):@Jan Range @Philip Durbin 🚀 and Max, I opened two issues about pyDataverse 0.4.0.beta1:
Errors when using pyDataverse 0.4.0.beta1: HTTP 401 - Bad API key
https://github.com/gdcc/pyDataverse/issues/245
Errors when testing pyDataverse 0.4.0.beta1 using pytest: HTTP 401 - Bad API key
https://github.com/gdcc/pyDataverse/issues/246
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Jul 17 2026 at 14:30):@Jinjie Liu thanks! I'm seeing "bad API key" in both issues you opened. Do you want to try this script: https://github.com/gdcc/dataverse-recipes/pull/37 ? In the README, I explain how to specify the API token/key.
Jinjie Liu (Jul 21 2026 at 15:19):@Philip Durbin 🚀 I have tried the script you pointed to, but it still reported the same error. I tried to both set API_TOKEN environment variable and run in Visual studio and set it and run via terminal. Below is the screenshot:
Jinjie Liu (Jul 21 2026 at 15:22):@Philip Durbin 🚀 Also, for this line: dv = Dataverse(base_url="http://localhost:8080"), when I run it. it reported error: "time out".
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Jul 21 2026 at 15:41):@Jinjie Liu hmm, which server are you testing against? You're welcome to use https://demo.dataverse.org if you like.
Jinjie Liu (Jul 21 2026 at 16:13):@Philip Durbin 🚀 I am testing against this server. This is the code:
dv = Dataverse(
base_url="https://demo.dataverse.org",
api_token="my_token"
)
This step succeeded.
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Jul 21 2026 at 17:27):Hmm. @Jinjie Liu can you please go to your account page under https://demo.dataverse.org and click "regenerate token"?
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Jul 21 2026 at 17:27):And then try using the new token, of course.
Jinjie Liu (Jul 21 2026 at 20:00):@Philip Durbin 🚀 Previously I got token from Harvard Dataverse Account. I didn't notice this. Now I got token from Demo Dataverse Account, and I can run dv.create_dataset(). But for pytest, for the same set of test functions, I got new error: ERROR: HTTP 401 - User @liujinjie1 is not permitted to perform requested action.
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Jul 21 2026 at 20:06):Sounds like progress! :smile:
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Jul 21 2026 at 20:06):I'm looking at this line:
collection=os.getenv("COLLECTION", ":root")
You should be able to create datasets in the root collection of the demo site, I think. :thinking: What if you create your own collection first? Does that help? You could just create the collection using the web interface, if that's easier.
Jinjie Liu (Jul 21 2026 at 20:16):@Philip Durbin 🚀 when I run dv.create_dataset(), it worked and I got output: Dataset doi:10.70122/FK2/JIQKK1 created at :root. But when I run dv.create_collection(), I got error: httpx.HTTPStatusError: ERROR: HTTP 401 - User @liujinjie1 is not permitted to perform requested action.
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Jul 21 2026 at 20:32):Interesting. I haven't tried dv.create_collection yet. I'm glad you were able to create a dataset! :tada:
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Jul 27 2026 at 18:34):@Jinjie Liu you're now getting a different error from dv.create_collection than what you posted in #245, right? Originally the error was ERROR: HTTP 401 - Bad API key but now it's ERROR: HTTP 401 - User @liujinjie1 is not permitted to perform requested action, right?
Jan Range (Jul 27 2026 at 19:00):Hi @all I just wanted to let you know that I follow your threads here, but havent yet found time to properly answer/react :slight_smile:
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Jul 27 2026 at 20:01):@Jan Range no worries! Thanks for merging PRs from @Sy! Do you have anything else for her to work on for beta1?
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