MyCapytain is a python library which provides a large set of methods to interact with Text Services API such as the Canonical Text Services, the Distributed Text Services. It also provides a programming interface to exploit local textual resources developed according to the Capitains Guidelines.
The following code and example is badly displayed at the moment on Github. We recommend you to go to http://mycapytain.readthedocs.org
On Leipzig DH Chair’s Canonical Text Services API, we can find the Epigrammata of Martial. This texts are identified by the identifier “ urn:cts:latinLit:phi1294.phi002.perseus-lat2 ”. We want to have some information about this text so we are gonna ask the API to give its metadata to us :