Re: [CODE4LIB] ethics of screenscraping library opacs?

Following on what others have said, I would suggest stepping back and asking what you're going to get from the screenscraped records... are you interested in content or design? Screenscrapes won't help you with content the way MARC records would since its just what's displayed and may not includ

Re: [CODE4LIB] ethics of screenscraping library opacs?

On Nov 28, 2021, at 6:01 AM, Peter Velikonja wrote: > As Kyle mentioned, a screenscraping method is inefficient and will > get you incomplete results. As a vendor to public libraries, I routinely > request (and receive) MARC dumps. Some libraries are better than > others at pulling these from t

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Re: [CODE4LIB] ethics of screenscraping library opacs?

Thank you all. I perhaps should have clarified that I am NOT trying to get a dump of a library's entire holdings. I just want to look for LC Call numbers for a few specific ISBNs, if they own that book with an LC call number. So I don't need the entire MARC record, and a dump would be incredibly in

Re: [CODE4LIB] ethics of screenscraping library opacs?

In that case, you might also try ISBN search via Z39.50, and ask for an OPAC record to be returned. The call number comes back in a very predictable place, so it might be less trouble than screen scraping, and easier to adapt to different target libraries. -Tod > On Nov 29, 2021, at 10:50 AM,

Re: [CODE4LIB] ethics of screenscraping library opacs?

Regarding Z39.50, they may have SRU enabled which would make this really easy. Even if searches have to be passed through the UI, Primo interfaces allow you to retrieve a structured PNX record via GET query parameter. With the small number of searches, the harvest plan should work well. kyle On M

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