Great, Ross. Would there be a use case to have a similar program that takes a different identifier as input, e.g. LCCN? I'm thinking about how one might reach those books that never had an ISBN....
kc On 3/8/13 7:06 PM, Ross Singer wrote: > Since we're announcing things :) > > I've also made a node.js client for the 'editions' service, based on > xISBN. [*] > > Basically, you give it an ISBN and it gives you the editions associated > with the relevant work(s). > > -Ross. > * https://github.com/talis/node-openlibrary-editions > > On Friday, March 8, 2013, John Shutt wrote: > > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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] > -- Karen Coyle [email protected] http://kcoyle.net ph: 1-510-540-7596 m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet _______________________________________________ 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]
