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@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ This is a community maintained fork of the original [sickle](https://github.com/
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 | CI | [![ci][ci-badge]][ci-workflow] [![coverage][coverage-badge]][ci-workflow] |
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 oaipmh-scythe is a lightweight [OAI-PMH](http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html)
 client library written in Python. It has been designed for conveniently retrieving data from OAI interfaces the Pythonic way:
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 [scorecard-url]: https://securityscorecards.dev/viewer/?uri=github.com/afuetterer/oaipmh-scythe
 [scorecard-badge]: https://api.securityscorecards.dev/projects/github.com/afuetterer/oaipmh-scythe/badge
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 [hatch]: https://github.com/pypa/hatch
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