{{tag>category:"OpenInsight 32-Bit" author:"Barry Stevens" author:"dbakke@srpcs.com's Don Bakke"}}

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==== Help need (OpenInsight 32-Bit) ====
=== At 05 DEC 2010 07:40:50PM Barry Stevens wrote: ===
 
 
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I have a potential client that needs to replace his existing book seling database with a custom version.



One of the things he does like about is that you can enter an ISBN and it will trawl web sites and return title/author/description/publisher etc.



Can anyone help in finding if this is available anywhere as a separate 3rd party function, as I dont have a clue how to write one.

or if anyone of you already have something similar that can be modified. Websites to search are setup.



Urgent (sorry)

TIA
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=== At 05 DEC 2010 09:33PM dbakke@srpcs.com's Don Bakke wrote:  ===

<QUOTE>Barry,



A quick online search reveals that [url=http://isbndb.com/]ISBNdb[/url] may be suitable to your needs. Their [url=https://isbndb.com/docs/api/51-books.html]API description page[/url] seems fairly straightforward to use. The [i]GetWebPage[/i] function will probably work for this. The results are in XML so this will be easy to parse.



This is very similar to how some of the Google API works. Note, however, that while this is a free service you need to subscribe to get an access key and they do monitor your activity to make sure this isn't abused. Google API has a similar policy.



dbakke@srpcs.com

[url=http://www.srpcs.com]SRP Computer Solutions, Inc.[/url]



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=== At 05 DEC 2010 11:29PM Barry Stevens wrote:  ===

<QUOTE>Saw that, I assumed it was website only search, ok, so I will dig into and find the api info.



Thanks, great help as usual.

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