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On May 1, 2007 Godmar Back wrote: > ..Are there any reusable, open source scripts out there that > implements a REST interface that screenscrapes or otherwise > efficiently accesses a III catalog? David and James have provided > links, but no code. I would be grateful for anything I could reuse > and don't have to reimplement... Godmar, I'm the 'James' noted above. Below is the link to my code. If that URL changes, it'll be updated at the wiki page URL that provides some notes on the service. A couple of extra notes that aren't yet on the wiki page... - The web-service is completely ISBN-based. - The webservice grew as needs grew: first I had a need only to know if we had a title, then eventually its status, then eventually its location. Since I wanted it to be as fast as possible, and each extra piece of info requires extra screen-scraping processing (especially going from existence-info to item-level info), I made each piece of returned info optional -- though even asking for all info, it's fast. It's likely not as extensible as David's terrific code, since mine uses in some places super-specific screen-scraping markers to get the data I want, but I hope its useful to folk. <http://dl.lib.brown.edu/code/iii_opac_webservice.zip> <http://128.148.7.210/~birkin/wikinotes/doku.php? id=public:soa_josiah_status> -Birkin --- Birkin James Diana Programmer, Integrated Technology Services Brown University Library [log in to unmask]