On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Anand Chitipothu <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 15-Sep-2011, at 2:12 AM, Tom Morris wrote:
>
>> The current ID for Tolstoy is OL26783A [1], but there are at least ten
>> other IDs which redirect to that current canonical one including
>> OL2997592A, OL2883781A, OL2957939A, OL2621549A, OL3311105A,
>> OL3039395A, OL2744893A, OL3142780A, OL4734259A, OL3113222A
>>
>> Is there a way to get a list of all these redirects?  In the history
>> page, I can see where alternate names were added as a result of
>> merges, but not what happened to the keys.
>
> Try this:
>
> http://openlibrary.org/query.json?type=/type/redirect&location=/authors/OL26783A
>
> Some author pages marked as redirects before the change from /authors/ to /a/ 
> are not be included in this response. You need to query them separately.
>
> http://openlibrary.org/query.json?type=/type/redirect&location=/a/OL26783A

Thanks, Anand!  Did you just add that or has it been there all along?
Is there documentation somewhere of other goodies like this in the
query API?

Tom
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