Bulk change type of external organisation in Elsevier's Pure

This Python script can be used to bulk change the "type" of external organisation in Elsevier's Pure system based on a list of UUID's in a csv file. Handy for cleaning data, migrating to different classifications and so on.

Prerequisites

• An API Key for Pure with write permission to the /external-organizations/ endpoint
• Access to Pure's reporting module
• Libraries: requests, csv, time
• A csv file with the UUIDs of the external organisations you wish to change the type on

Deployment

• Place the 'uuids.csv' file in the same directory as the script
• Run the script
• Input Pure API-key
• Input the base URL of the Pure instance
• Select the desired external organisation type based on the allowed types in the Pure instance