On Tue Aug 26 2003 at 16:15, Ed Summers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 12:10:52PM -0500, Bill White wrote: >> Is there an easy perl way to retrieve a MARC record for a given ISBN? > > As others have noted this is just what Z39.50 is built for. But if > you are in the mood to try an unorthodox approach (at least for the > sake of seeing a relatively new and useful CPAN module in action), > you might want to try to use WWW::Mechanize to create a bot that > searches for the ISBN at catalog.loc.gov and pulls down the MARC > record. Just such a bot is listed below.
Thank you! This works perfectly for me. Now I could probably get a bunch of isbns into a file and loop through it with this bot. bw (Now having fun and reading MARC::Doc::Tutorial.3) -- Bill White Office: 5N-X30 Documentation Programmer Phone: 217-398-0700 x 234 Wolfram Research Fax: 217-398-0747 http://members.wri.com/billw Office hours: MTuTh 8a-4p WF 4a-12
