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Mar 13, 03:11 pm: You know what I wish?
That I could scrape my Amazon wishlist and check to see if any of the books are available at my local library.
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John (Uneasy Rhetoric)
I don’t know of any tools for scraping, but you can look it up book by book using a bookmarklet.
Edward Vielmetti
Marnie –
First go to
http://www.lifeschooling.com/BayAreaLibraries.htm
and pick up the bookmarklet that lets you check availability one book at a time by hand for Amazon. That’s a start.
Next step is to go to http://www.superpatron.com and look at one of the samples of a “linky” Greasemonkey script that would built the lookup into Amazon. It should be possible with a little Javascript cut and paste to adapt one of those for the Solano system.
Jon Udell has the big story here:
http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/stories/2002/12/11/librarylookup.html
which includes a wishlist-to-library-RSS-feed script he put together, but I haven’t managed to get that running myself.
Ed
marnie webb
John: thanks for the pointer. I’ll see if that works with my sporadically online library system.
Ed: thanks to you, too. I’ll look at those and see if I can cobble together something that works.