I'm quickly learning that the hard way! Either vendor lock-in is to blame
for this or the fact that many of these systems predate the web and rely
on esoteric protocols.
I finally ended up screen scraping with curl and using a regex to extract
the title.
The url looks like this:
On May 9, 2012, at 11:27 AM, Madrigal, Juan A wrote:
I'm thinking that one way to accomplish this is via Z39.50 and send a query
to the backend that powers WebOPAC
Juan,
I just did a search for this and grab this from OCLC. It looks like the search
is 5017/word, phrase and the (OCLC's)
If you're just looking for text, our programmer did it simply by doing
a screen scrape of the resulting page. So the call number search is
used, it automatically takes the first result and scrapes the
information from the item details page. Doesn't really help in getting
it in JSON or XML though.
Hi,
I'm looking for a way to send a Call Number to WebOPAC via a query so that I
can return data (title, author, etc…) for a specific book in the catalog
preferably in JSON or XML (I'll even take text at this point).
I'm thinking that one way to accomplish this is via Z39.50 and send a query
