Discussion on Los Angeles Public Library Lookup | Userscripts.org

Archived Comments, replied by davidwag @ Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:21:34 -0500

davidwag — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:21:34 -0500

Thanks, Sam - I overwrote my code with yours.

Archived Comments, replied by Sam Richards @ Tue, 03 Jul 2007 23:26:34 -0500

Sam Richards — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 23:26:34 -0500

Added the fixed script at:
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/10445 (or do a search for Los Angeles) hopefully we can get this script fixed and get rid of my copy.

BTW, I have to say how cool I think this plugin is, so thanks to all the original developers. The number of books that I've gotten from the library increased 100%. Some of them I've even gone on to buy too...

Sam.

Archived Comments, replied by Sam Richards @ Tue, 03 Jul 2007 23:15:10 -0500

Sam Richards — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 23:15:10 -0500

If you replace the line:

var header = document.evaluate("//b[@class='sans']", document, null, XPathResult.FIRST_ORDERED_NODE_TYPE, null).singleNodeValue;

With:
var header = document.evaluate("//div[@id='priceBlock']", document, null, XPathResult.FIRST_ORDERED_NODE_TYPE, null).singleNodeValue;

Then it should work.

Sam.

Archived Comments, replied by Rocio @ Tue, 01 May 2007 23:59:15 -0500

Rocio — Tue, 01 May 2007 23:59:15 -0500

This script doesn't really work anymore because the library updated their search system & amazon completely updated and modified its style.

I made a bookmarklet that opens in a new tab the library page for that book that you are looking at in Amazon.

Techie babble: I have almost no javascript experience, but I made by tweaking around with this script's code & using the library lookup bookmarklet generator (not as easy as it sounds, because in order to generate you have to know what system your library uses).

I wanted to update this greasemonkey script so that it work, but Amazon's website updated from the time this was written and I don't have enough javascript experience to rewrite it and make it work at this point.

I hope this bookmarklet helps someone

& I am going to try to learn how to script so that I can get this greasemonkey script to work or how to transfer this bookmarklet into a greasemonkey script. (Any help would be well appreciated)

Here is the bookmarklet:

javascript:var%20re=/([\/-]|is[bs]n=)(\d{7,9}[\dX])/i;if(re.test(location.href)==true){var%20isbn=RegExp.$2;void(win=window.open('http://catalog1.lapl.org/cgi-bin/cw_cgi?5005+CONFIGcw.ini+useDatabase_965_I_'+ isbn,'LibraryLookup'))}

[Keep in mind I am an amateur so if you can improve it, DO!]

Archived Comments, replied by 12Jhonny @ Fri, 16 Dec 2005 08:58:10 -0600

12Jhonny — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 08:58:10 -0600

You are worthy of great praise. Going from wanting a book to looking it up has always beens such an ordeal. Now I can just put everything in an amazon cart and check it out. Thanks.

Archived Comments, replied by Jesse Andrews @ Tue, 16 Nov 2004 19:05:31 -0600

Jesse Andrews — Tue, 16 Nov 2004 19:05:31 -0600

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