On Sat, 22 Sep 2012 10:01:51 -0500, craig wrote: > Greetings, > > I have a small book collection (~150) that I thought would be neat to > catalog by the Library of Congress catalog numbers. I have found a LOC > search form that will allow me to input the ISBN, and it will return the > information I want: > > [code]http://www.loc.gov/cgi-bin/zgate?ACTION=INIT&FORM_HOST_PORT=/prod/www/data/z3950/locils2.html,z3950.loc.gov,7090[/code] > > I have the list of book ISBNs in a text file, so scripting this should > be quite easy. The problem is I can't figure out how to submit the form > from the command line. I figured wget would be the best way, but > everything I try results in downloading a single line that reads "Your > form didn't include an ACTION!" So I thought I would turn to here for > help. The test ISBN I am using is for The Linux Cookbook: 1886411484, > QA76.76.O63S788 2001.
As others suggest, the query should be something like: wget http://www.loc.gov/cgi-bin/zgate --post-data="ACTION=SEARCH&TERM_1=1886411484&SESSION_ID=1234567" But I get "session expired" :-( (note the "SESSION_ID" field value is completely arbitrary in the above line) > And a related side question. From my reading, I've learned that the > Z39.50 protocol is used to query databases, usually library related. Is > anyone aware of an ISBN database table that can be downloaded by the > user, preferably in a format that can be imported into MySQL or > PostgreSQL? Well, according to this: http://www.loc.gov/z3950/gateway.html#about You can query the database by means of Z39.50 client, should you find one ;-) Greteings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/k3knbc$mv$1...@ger.gmane.org
