Hello Nicholas,
maybe that it's a bit late but I've found that for this kind of things,
OpenRefine (ex Google refine) works fine if the catalog you want to
query allows passing parameter in the url; You can get the HTML code of
the catalog pages and easily detect if it show a record or not. I'v
The worksheets I circulated earlier in the week include examples of how to take
a list of ISBNs from a spreadsheet/csv file and search on Worldcat (see the
'Automated Love Examples' docs in http://bit.ly/automatedlovefolder)
What these examples don't do is include how to check the outcome of the
I think you'd want to use xISBN, too, right?
-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of
Nicholas Brown
Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2014 6:21 AM
To: CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu
Subject: [CODE4LIB] Automated searching of Copac/Wor
Apologies for cross posting
Dear collective wisdom,
I'm interested in using automation software such as Macro Express or iMacros to
feed a list of ISBNs from a spreadsheet into Copac or Worldcat and output a
list of those that return no matches in the results screen. The idea would be
to creat
