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

Barry,

A quick online search reveals that ISBNdb may be suitable to your needs. Their API description page seems fairly straightforward to use. The GetWebPage 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

SRP Computer Solutions, Inc.

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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