[CODE4LIB] ethics of screenscraping library opacs?

2021-11-25 Thread M Belvadi
Hi, all. What do you all think about code that screenscapes (eg python's Beautiful Soup) library opacs? Is it ok to do? Ok if it's throttled to a specific rate of hits per minute? Ok, if throttled AND is a really big library system where the load might not be relatively significant? Not entirely

Re: [CODE4LIB] ethics of screenscraping library opacs?

2021-11-29 Thread M Belvadi
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] Excel sorting

2022-08-03 Thread M Belvadi
One more caveat - if your data one or more blank rows, that can prevent the entire sheet from being included in the sort. Watch for that. Melissa Belvadi mbelv...@gmail.com On Tue, Aug 2, 2022 at 7:41 PM Tim McMahon wrote: > Highlight the column you want to sort on. Excel will ask if you want