There are two email lists you might be interested in relating specifically to the BookReader:
Announcements, including new releases: http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/bookreader-announce General development: http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/bookreader-devel On 9/27/10 3:08 PM, Michael Ang wrote: > On 9/27/10 1:44 PM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: >> I think I asked this question like two years ago, and the answer was >> "No, not yet, but we'd like that." So I'm pinging again. >> >> Some Internet Archive/OL full text exists in a 'page turner' interface >> that also has 'search inside' functionality. For instance: >> http://www.archive.org/stream/thesetwain00bennrich#page/n5/mode/2up >> >> Using IA/OL APIs, I am already identifying internet archive ID's of >> interest, like say "thesetwain00bennrich". Using that identifier, is >> there any way using IA/OL APIs for me to: >> >> 1) Discover if a book is available in that page-turner format (not >> everything is). > Unfortunately the logic to determine if a book can be displayed is a > little complicated and we don't have a proper API that exposes the result. > > In the meantime this is a little cheesy but you could fetch > http://www.archive.org/stream/{itemid} and look for the string > "BookReader.js" in the returned HTML. That should indicate that the > BookReader is being served. > > That should work for all the books which we've scanned. For user > uploaded text items it's a little more complicated since there is > usually an additional 'sub-prefix' that is also required. Right now > there isn't a great way to find out the sub-prefix... we make that > determination by looking at the item files.xml for the files that the > BookReader needs (sorry). > > 2) Deep link into search results for a particular query in a particular >> book. > This already works by appending "search/{terms}" after the # in the > BookReader URL. > > e.g. > http://www.archive.org/stream/nimrodofseaorame00davirich#page/18/mode/2up/search/albatross > > This is documented here: > http://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/bookurls#searching > > We're working on using an improved full-text search engine instead of > the current rudimentary search. This should only give better results > and shouldn't affect the deep-linked search URLs! > > - mang >> If #1 can be taken care of, but #2 can't be because of limitations in >> the javascript reader, then I might try to find time to submit a patch >> to the javascript reader to make that possible, although I'm not sure >> when I'd find the time to do so. >> >> Jonathan >> _______________________________________________ >> Ol-tech mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech >> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to >> [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > Ol-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > [email protected] _______________________________________________ Ol-tech mailing list [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
