Hey y'all, Over the past week, Jay Fajardo and I have been doing a lot of work on the openlibrary gem <https://github.com/jayfajardo/openlibrary>. We've added a shiny new client for the REST API <http://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/restful_api>, which can:
* Find books and authors by their OLIDs * Get the revision history of any object * Get an array of recent changes to Open Library * Create Ruby pseudo-objects to easily grab OL object data * Log in to Open Library programmatically There's still more to add, like broader support for the Query API, but we're near the point where people can write advanced crawlers and bots in Ruby. If any of your friends and loved ones are Rubyists and want to contribute to Open Library, point them toward this project! Speaking of bots, how does one become a member of the API usergroup<http://openlibrary.org/usergroup/api>? Does the bot have to be written and get its code vetted before it can make PUT requests? John Shutt
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