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That's exactly what I needed. Thanks, Kevin! Joshua Welker Information Technology Librarian James C. Kirkpatrick Library University of Central Missouri Warrensburg, MO 64093 JCKL 2260 660.543.8022 On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 10:50 AM, Kevin Ford <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > There's no reason to screen scrape the results. > > The label service permits the use of the "Accept" header. For example: > > curl -i -L -H "Accept: application/rdf+xml" http://id.loc.gov/authorities/ > label/orchids > > Take note of the initial set of response headers: > > HTTP/1.1 302 FOUND > Location: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85095334 > X-URI: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85095334 > X-PrefLabel: Orchids > Cache-Control: public, max-age=1209600 > Content-Length: 0 > Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2017 12:41:00 GMT > Server: Apache > X-Varnish: 95467183 53781367 > Age: 2343793 > Via: 1.1 varnish-v4 > X-Cache: HIT > X-Cache-Hits: 24 > Connection: keep-alive > > If you want, you could perform only a HEAD request on the label service > and then use the X-URI and X-PrefLabel headers to gather the info you > need. NB: The service works on an exact match, more or less; take off the > 's' of 'orchids' and you'll get an entirely different result. > > You can also operate on the search results - not the label service - > programatically. See "Supported Search serialization formats" here: > http://id.loc.gov/techcenter/serializations.html One XML-based option > and a JSON one too. > > Yours, > Kevin > > > > > On 8/25/17 10:39, Josh Welker wrote: > >> Thanks, Nathan. That looks like it will work if I do it manually, but >> there >> is no interface for doing it programmatically. Is LC okay with me screen >> scraping the search results? >> >> Joshua Welker >> Information Technology Librarian >> James C. Kirkpatrick Library >> University of Central Missouri >> Warrensburg, MO 64093 >> JCKL 2260 >> 660.543.8022 >> >> >> On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 10:18 AM, Trail, Nate <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> >> You can try our "label" service. See under "known label retrieval" here: >>> http://id.loc.gov/techcenter/searching.html >>> I would be glad to help further. >>> >>> Thanks, Nate >>> >>> ----------------------------------------- >>> Nate Trail >>> Network Development & MARC Standards Office >>> LS/ABA/NDMSO >>> LA308, Mail Stop 4402 >>> Library of Congress >>> Washington DC 20540 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of >>> Josh Welker >>> Sent: Friday, August 25, 2017 11:12 AM >>> To: [log in to unmask] >>> Subject: [CODE4LIB] Searching LC Name Authority file programmatically >>> >>> I have sort of inherited authority control recently at my library, and I >>> want to find some way to automate some common workflows. I am looking for >>> an easy way to query blind name references against the LC Name Authority >>> master file. There is no API for searching it on the web, and the name >>> file >>> itself is 10+ GB and hard to work with. >>> >>> Here are options as I see them: >>> >>> >>> - Screen scrape the search engine at id.loc.gov. >>> - Load the 10+ GB name file into a local database to query >>> programmatically. >>> >>> Does anyone have experience with either method? Does some other method >>> exist I am not aware of? >>> >>> Joshua Welker >>> Information Technology Librarian >>> James C. Kirkpatrick Library >>> University of Central Missouri >>> Warrensburg, MO 64093 >>> JCKL 2260 >>> 660.543.8022 >>> >>>