We should work on improving the documentation in this realm, but in the
mean time you might want to check some of the existing bots e,g,

https://github.com/bencomp/VacuumBot

or any of the others that you can identify by checking who's got bot access

Tom

On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 8:17 PM, John Shutt <[email protected]> wrote:

> Any information about how Open Library deals with PUT requests internally
> would also be extremely helpful! For example:
>
> * If the JSON object sent to Open Library includes a new value for an
> existing key (adding more stuff to the "subjects" array, for instance),
> will that value be updated in the expected way?
>
> * If the JSON object includes an entirely new field (like Goodreads and
> LibraryThing identifiers for a book that doesn't have them listed yet),
> will the new field be appended to the end of the Open Library object?
>
> * Will sending a JSON object that *only* includes new or changed fields
> do something bad, like replace the original Open Library object with the
> new, incomplete object?
>
> * Would it be possible to see a sample cURL request that saves things
> successfully to Open Library? There's a gap in the 
> docs<http://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/restful_api#save>where this would go.
>
> John
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 3:13 PM, John Shutt <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> I'm working on adding PUT requests to the Ruby API wrapper, and want to
>> run a couple of small tests against Open Library to make sure that
>> everything works correctly. Would it be possible to add my profiles,
>> "pemulis" and "nondescriptbot", to the API 
>> usergroup<http://openlibrary.org/usergroup/api>?
>> I promise to tread lightly when making requests.
>>
>> John
>>
>
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