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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > 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] > >
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