I wasn't aware of this, but it definitely didn't exist way back when I
started. You can download all the GACs in XML from that page.

kyle

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Stephen Hearn <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Have you looked at id.loc.gov? One of its vocabularies defines URLs
> for each of the MARC geographic area codes.
>
> Stephen
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Jonathan Rochkind <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> > Can anyone remind me if there's a machine readable copy of the MARC
> > geographic codes available at any persistent URL?
> >
> > They're in HTML at http://www.loc.gov/marc/geoareas/gacs_code.html . I
> > actually had a script that automatically downloaded from there and
> "scraped"
> > the HTML -- but sometime since I wrote the script, the HTML structure on
> the
> > page changed and it broke.
> >
> > (I kind of thought that was unlikely since that HTML page itself was
> machine
> > generated -- but I guess they changed the software that generated it.
> > Certainly I knew that scraping HTML was a bad thing to rely on... which
> is
> > why I hope LC provides this in some format less likely to change?)
> >
>
>
>
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