Due the absence of APIs, we have to scrape III WebBridge and EBSCO
LinkSource link resolver results to determine electronic holdings for
things.

Neither of them make it particularly easy, since they don't provide many
semantic clues in the markup as to what you're looking at and there are all
kinds of other conditions you have to account for (e.g. direct linking to
certain sources, etc.).

It's generally one of those things I avoid at all costs since the pages you
want/need to scrape are the most likely to be the most frustrating to work
with.

-Ross.

On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 1:26 PM Brad Coffield <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> I think there's likely a lot of possibilities out there and was hoping to
> hear examples of web scraping for libraries. Your example might just
> inspire me or another reader to do something similar. At the very least,
> the ideas will be interesting!
>
> Brad
>
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> Saint Francis University
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