ULS UNITS PSL - Get cover image for Classic books.

[manolobevia]

• [ ] Get familiar with Google Book's API
• [ ] Find tools for scrapping the ISBN from the catalog BIBID display.
• [ ] Get book cover from Google Book's API

[manolobevia]

Probably, I will be using cheerio.js. Review: https://medium.com/data-scraper-tips-tricks/scraping-data-with-javascript-in-3-minutes-8a7cf8275b31.

Mark record for ISBN: 020

[manolobevia]

Not using cheerio.js since we are not using ES6.

[manolobevia]

@tap87 I am passing this issue to you. PSL is providing a list of books with the BIBID. We need the ISBN number to get the covers from google books API. There is no API from the library catalogue.

Frances pass me this info:

For the OPAC, we get the ISBN from the full catalog record, though I think we actually use the OCLC numbers to retrieve book covers from Google because it's more consistently populated in the records. There should be several ways to get these identifiers. I think there's probably a database table that has these identifiers already extracted from the full record so you can query for them more directly, and assuming it's still up there should be a web-based url you can hit to retrieve the bibliographic marc in xml format and then find the identifiers in the records yourself. (edited) http://yazproxy.library.cornell.edu:9000/voyager?query=rec.id%3D3589320&startRecord=1&maximumRecords=1&recordSchema=opacxml&version=1.1&operation=searchRetrieve

That includes the argument rec.id=3589320, and that's where you swap your own bib id's.

The ISBN number is in the field 020, and the OCLC identifier is in the field 035 where the value is prefixed with (OCoLC). (edited) I'm not sure about the firewall. That'll take some experimentation. I can access it without the VPN from an ethernet connection in room 218, but I'm not sure about the wireless network or from off campus.

[manolobevia]

Closing this issue since the images have been provided by the client.