Quick and dirty CKAN to CKAN import

gistfile1.py

import json
import requests

ORI_SERVER = 'http://thedatahub.org'
DEST_SERVER = 'http://demo.ckan.org'

API_KEY = '<YOUR_API_KEY>'


#NAMES = ['gold-prices'] #This one failed (?)

NAMES = [
'afterfibre',
'us-national-foreclosure-statistics-january-2012',
'malawi-aid-projects',
'italyregionalaccounts',
'adur_district_spending',
'newcastle-city-council-payments-over-500',
'afghanistan-election-data'
]

headers = {
    'Authorization':API_KEY
}

base_url_ori = '%s/api/rest/dataset' % ORI_SERVER
base_url_dest = '%s/api/rest/dataset' % DEST_SERVER

for name in NAMES:

    url_ori = '%s/%s' % (base_url_ori,name)

    pkg_dict = json.loads(requests.get(url_ori).content)

    del pkg_dict['id']
    del pkg_dict['groups']

    res = requests.post(base_url_dest,headers=headers,data=json.dumps(pkg_dict))

    print 'Imported dataset %s [%s]' % (name,res.status_code)