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Hi Alexander,

I've always meant to make the pymods parser more flexible to various inputs. My workflows have always involved local XML files, so I never got around to implementing that feature. I'm happy to hear that someone else is using pymods, so that will bump the priority up for me a bit.

My family just welcomed our first child recently, so unfortunately I don't have much time to work on this at the moment. If you're comfortable submitting a PR implementing string parsing, I'll consider it for merging. Otherwise, it might be a little bit until I'm back in the office and ready to spend time on this.

If you need a short-term solution, you can write out requests.get(<your request url>).text and pass that to the parser. If you're working with OAI-PMH data, I've had a lot of success with with Mark Phillips' pyoaiharvester. It's a python2 utility, but it's very helpful at getting OAI-PMH data where you can use it.

Best,
-MM

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