Hi,

[I'm french so, sorry for any mistake or misspelling]

I've used the OL RDF API for a small web project of mine for 2 years now
[1]. Until now, I store lists ids into a database, and get books and all
their data from these ids using Curl calls and then store it on disk again.
That's all. This is all done with some quick and dirty Perl scripts.

Now, the project is growing [2] and we try to make it better, and I would
like to build an AJAX process for a book title field in a form with
"available data from your database" auto-fill for these fields. I'm almost
sure it's not possible to achieve this with the API, but I ask you because
I *really *want to be sure before searching for something else : now, I
know your tool, so I would like to keep on with it. More, this is a piece
of Free Software and data are Open, that's not the case for similar
services.

So my question is : *is it possible to request the API for editions or work
titles, and **get associated data* (ISBN, author, issue, ... )??? Something
just like :

   $ curl 'http://openlibrary.org/api/books?booktitle=Asking questions on
mailing list for dummies'

I only know we are able to do this from ISBNs, LCCNs, OCLC numbers and
OLIDs, not for book titles...

I mean I wish your internal web search engine would be APIzed... I just
want to be sure it is not before I go back on Google or maybe OCLC? But if
it's not, so I want to thank you because it's a great tool and It has been
very very useful to me.

Thanx for any response.

Smonff

[1] - http://selfshelfswap.org/
[2] - https://github.com/smonff/Shurf/

-- 
Sébastien
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