There are several urls on loc.gov that will retrieve book information
from an ISBN. The one below has no problem with session cookies. So
wouldn't this quick and dirty one-liner do what you want?
#!/bin/sh
# loc.sh ISBN
elinks -dump -dump-charset utf8 -no-references
cr...@gtek.biz cr...@gtek.biz wrote:
I have a small book collection (~150) that I thought would be neat to
catalog by the Library of Congress catalog numbers. I have found a LOC
search form that will allow me to input the ISBN, and it will return
the information I want:
[..]
I have the
They've learned a lot about the structure of classification systems since
LC was set up.
I've been doing some reading, and there is work under way to modernize the
classification system. In the meantime this works for my needs. I do appreciate
the suggestion.
Sent - Gtek Web Mail
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In the end I did pretty much as suggested, using wget and re-using session IDs.
I created a bash script that gets a session ID, reads the list of ISBN numbers,
and then tries to retrieve their info. If the retrieval returns a session
expired then it gets a new one. It also does a decent job of
On Sat, 22 Sep 2012 10:01:51 -0500, craig wrote:
Greetings,
I have a small book collection (~150) that I thought would be neat to
catalog by the Library of Congress catalog numbers.
This isn't what you asked for at all, but you might consider the BLISS
classification instead. It's more
Hendrik Boom writes:
It's more modern, and its classification guides are legitimately
available for free download.
What about LCC is not in the public domain?
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/
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On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 10:01:51AM -0500, cr...@gtek.biz wrote:
Greetings,
I have a small book collection (~150) that I thought would be neat to catalog
by the Library of Congress catalog numbers. I have found a LOC search form
that will allow me to input the ISBN, and it will return the
Have a look at:
http://search.cpan.org/dist/WWW-Mechanize/
Have a read of:
http://www.perl.com/pub/2003/01/22/mechanize.html
Do a google search on perl www::mechanize
Thanks for the reply (and to the other kind folks that took time
to reply). I will have to put this quest off until
On 22.9.2012 18:01, cr...@gtek.biz wrote:
I have the list of book ISBNs in a text file, so scripting this
should be quite easy. The problem is I can't figure out how to submit
the form from the command line.
http://curl.haxx.se/docs/manpage.html
It should be quite easy with curl.
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On 9/22/12 6:01 PM, cr...@gtek.biz wrote:
[snip]
And a related side question. From my reading, I've learned that the
Z39.50 protocol is used to query databases, usually library related.
Is anyone aware of an ISBN database table that can be downloaded by
the user, preferably in a format that
On 22/09/12 11:01 AM, cr...@gtek.biz wrote:
Greetings,
I have a small book collection (~150) that I thought would be neat to catalog
by the Library of Congress catalog numbers. I have found a LOC search form that
will allow me to input the ISBN, and it will return the information I want:
On 9/22/12 6:01 PM, cr...@gtek.biz wrote:
Greetings,
I have a small book collection (~150) that I thought would be neat to
catalog by the Library of Congress catalog numbers. I have found a
LOC search form that will allow me to input the ISBN, and it will
return the information I want:
On 22/09/12 11:27 AM, Gary Dale wrote:
On 22/09/12 11:01 AM, cr...@gtek.biz wrote:
Greetings,
I have a small book collection (~150) that I thought would be neat to
catalog by the Library of Congress catalog numbers. I have found a
LOC search form that will allow me to input the ISBN, and it
On Sat, 22 Sep 2012 10:01:51 -0500, craig wrote:
Greetings,
I have a small book collection (~150) that I thought would be neat to
catalog by the Library of Congress catalog numbers. I have found a LOC
search form that will allow me to input the ISBN, and it will return the
information I
For background see the Bath Profile:
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/interop-focus/bath/
There are also bindings for C, C++ and PHP. You'll find them at
IndexData's web site.
As far as importing into MySQL or Postgresql, that is up to how you
decide to map the Bath Profile (most likely the one used)
The url you give is for the form. If you enter an ISBN number it will do
the search.
What you need to do is capture the http header sent when you click
submit query then replace the test ISBN number with whatever number
you want to search. Wireshark can do this. Simply look for the query
As others suggest, the query should be something like:
wget http://www.loc.gov/cgi-bin/zgate
--post-data=ACTION=SEARCHTERM_1=1886411484SESSION_ID=1234567
Yeah, I was messing with the --post-data, but I didn't know I had to use an
ACTION key. Will play with that.
But I get session expired
On 9/22/12 7:28 PM, cr...@gtek.biz wrote:
[snip]
I kind if figured that would be what I needed, but I'm not aware of any
Z39.50 clients.
[snip]
Using ZOOM, mentioned in my previous post, you can use your perl script
as a Z39.50 client to search the LOC catalog directly. There are also
C, C++
Using ZOOM, mentioned in my previous post, you can use your perl script
as a Z39.50 client to search the LOC catalog directly. There are also
C, C++ and PHP bindings.
Ah, that makes sense. I will probably get after this again later today or
tomorrow, and I will definitely post any success
On 9/22/12 7:46 PM, cr...@gtek.biz wrote:
Using ZOOM, mentioned in my previous post, you can use your perl
script as a Z39.50 client to search the LOC catalog directly.
There are also C, C++ and PHP bindings.
Ah, that makes sense. I will probably get after this again later
today or
On Sat, 22 Sep 2012 11:28:50 -0500, craig wrote:
As others suggest, the query should be something like:
wget http://www.loc.gov/cgi-bin/zgate
--post-data=ACTION=SEARCHTERM_1=1886411484SESSION_ID=1234567
Yeah, I was messing with the --post-data, but I didn't know I had to use
an ACTION
On 22/09/12 11:34 AM, Lars Noodén wrote:
On 9/22/12 6:01 PM, cr...@gtek.biz wrote:
Greetings,
I have a small book collection (~150) that I thought would be neat to
catalog by the Library of Congress catalog numbers. I have found a
LOC search form that will allow me to input the ISBN, and it
wget isn't the right tool for that job. However its brother wput may be
able to do the job. On Sat, 22 Sep 2012, Gary Dale wrote:
On 22/09/12 11:27 AM, Gary Dale wrote:
On 22/09/12 11:01 AM, cr...@gtek.biz wrote:
Greetings,
I have a small book collection (~150) that I thought would
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