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Brett, did you ask the folks at the Large University Library if they could set something up for you? I don't have a good sense of how other institutions deal with things like this. In any case, I know I'd much rather talk about setting up an API or a nightly dump or something rather than have my analytics (and bandwidth!) blown by a screen scraper. I might say "no," but at least it would be an informed "no" :-) On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 2:08 PM, Brett <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > 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] > > > -- Bill Dueber Library Systems Programmer University of Michigan Library