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I leveraged the IMPORTXML() and xpath features in Google Sheets to pull information from a large university website to help create a set of weeding lists for a branch campus. They needed extra details about what was in off-site storage and what was held at the central campus library. This was very much like Jason's FIFO API, the central reporting group had sent me a spreadsheet with horrible data that I would have had to sort out almost completely manually, but the call numbers were pristine. I used the call numbers as a key to query the catalog with limits for each campus I needed to check, and then it dumped all of the necessary content (holdings, dates, etc) into the spreadsheet. I've also used Feed43 as a way to modify certain RSS feeds and scrape websites to only display the content I want. Brett Williams On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 1:24 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 > > > -- > Brad Coffield, MLIS > Assistant Information and Web Services Librarian > Saint Francis University > 814-472-3315 > [log in to unmask] >