Hello,
I've been puzzling over something but can't figure out a solution. I
have an RSS feed providing the content behind all the links on this
page: http://demo.plinkit.org/interestsideas/goodreads/booklists.
There's a nice bookmarklet tool in the world called LibraryLookup that
lets you check whether a book you find on Amazon or something is in
your library's catalog by scraping up the ISBN and launching an ISBN
catalog search. It's a _javascript_, really. I thought I would adapt this
to create a little add-on for the stuff the bestsellers RSS brings back
to my site. What I need to do is pluck out the ISBNs in the links on a
page like this one:
http://demo.plinkit.org/interestsideas/goodreads/sinList?synmap=HardcoverFiction
The ISBNs are all in the URLs for the book titles
("isbn=Some10digitNumberHere"). How would I look for a piece of text in
that shape, i.e., isbn=5893193390, then, if it's there, copy and paste
that piece of information into the LibraryLookup _javascript_ I have. The
end result should be that, if there's an ISBN in a feed result, an extra link
appears for each entry that says something like "Check the catalog,"
which you can click to look that book up in your own library's catalog.
I've been staring at the template that formats the RSS feed to figure
out whether any TAL _expression_ would work for this. I've been playing
with a short Python script, then wondering how to call it within that
template, but I think I have to use regular expressions to do it.
I'm sorry to be so lost on this, but I guess I am. I'd love to do
something cool like this for our little Plinkit libraries. Can anyone
help? I'll take anything from a broad strategy to actual code snippets
(I'm a terrible programmer but a good librarian).
Thanks
Eva the Librarian
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