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Making it work with other Libraries, replied by Stv.

Stv. — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:30:06 +0000

I made minor updates to make this work with vancouver public library: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/58190.

Only thing of note is that the OCLC labs URL appears to now be defunct. I've applied for a key to use against their live API, and will share once approved. This means the initial ISBN lookup *always* fails, but the title search works. Think I'll add in a 2nd link to the ISBN results as well.

Making it work with other Libraries, replied by Fat Knowledge

Fat Knowledge — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:58:39 +0000

Hi Bryan,

That's cool that you have got it to work for Ottawa.

I have taken your suggestion and updated the code to move the regex's of book status to the top of the file.

Combining the scripts scares me, as trying to modify the script when changes occur at the Seattle library is enough work. Trying to keep it up to date for multiple libraries is too much work for me. :)

There are probably lots of other statuses that are not being captured. Right now it just gives you a "Error checking at" message and then you can click on the link to see what that status is. That works well enough for me, but feel free to modify your script if you like to capture that status. Should be fairly straight forward to modify the getBookStatus function to capture the damaged book status.

Making it work with other Libraries, replied by Bryan Larsen

Bryan Larsen — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:09:25 +0000

I found another book status: "damaged"

Making it work with other Libraries, replied by Bryan Larsen

Bryan Larsen — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:59:45 +0000

I just updated my trivial modification of your script to work with the Ottawa Library: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/24035

This was fairly trivial, I only had to modify the URLs, plus one of the regexes in getBookStatus. I suggest moving the regexes to the top, below libraryName to make it obvious to other users modifying this script for their libraries.

Even nicer would be to combine these scripts...

Search by title if ISBN not found, replied by Fat Knowledge

Fat Knowledge — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 01:02:39 +0000

Hi Arthaey,

Thanks for your work on this.

I integrated your code with some other I had that looks for other ISBNs. I left the title search out, but if no ISBN is found then a link for search based on title is given.

I wish there was an easy way to know what each version of the book was, Large Print, Hardcover, paperback, etc. Maybe that is the next upgrade.

Search by title if ISBN not found, replied by Arthaey Angosii

Arthaey Angosii — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:32:20 +0000

I've also added searching by other editions' ISBNs, before searching by title.

Search by title if ISBN not found, replied by Arthaey Angosii

Arthaey Angosii — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:43:35 +0000

I've modified the script to do this myself. It's posted at http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/38096

Search by title if ISBN not found, replied by Arthaey Angosii

Arthaey Angosii — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:02:41 +0000

Also, the URL query string for searching by title is index=PALLTI&term=whatever

Search by title if ISBN not found, replied by Arthaey Angosii

Arthaey Angosii — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:59:42 +0000

I've found that sometimes a search by ISBN doesn't find a book that SPL does indeed have. For example, see http://www.amazon.com/Life-Medieval-City-Joseph...

If you search by ISBN, it finds nothing. If you search by title, voilà! document.getElementById("btAsinTitle") should get you the span element with the book title.

Archived Comments, replied by Fat Knowledge

Fat Knowledge — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 07:05:32 +0000

Theora,

Yeah, someone else reported it not working on a Mac. I don't know why that would be and unfortunately I don't have access to a Mac to check it out.

Sorry.

Archived Comments, replied by Theora

Theora — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:37:31 +0000

I am unable to get this script to work. I installed it, restarted my browser just in case, but to no avail. I was thinking that perhaps something went wrong after a Firefox update, but I'm not tech enough to figure out what happened. :-(

I'm running Firefox 3.0.3 on Mac OS X 10.5.5

Archived Comments, replied by mkbrandt

mkbrandt — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:24:45 +0000

It works like a charm - thank you so much! I'm a doctoral student, and this script has saved me an enormous amount of time :-)

Archived Comments, replied by Fat Knowledge

Fat Knowledge — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:35:17 +0000

mkbrandt,

Amazon made a chance to their page format. Should be fixed with the 1.1 version.

Archived Comments, replied by mkbrandt

mkbrandt — Mon, 19 May 2008 20:30:34 +0000

Hmmm. I think the recent changes to the SPL site have made the script stop working :-(

Archived Comments, replied by Bryan Larsen

Bryan Larsen — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:59:56 +0000

Works great with the Ottawa Public Library. http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/24035

Archived Comments, replied by Fat Knowledge

Fat Knowledge — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 02:03:12 +0000

Joseph,

Yes, you can change the libraryUrlPattern and libraryName variables to your local library and assuming they are using the same back end system it will work for you.

Rudi,

That is strange that it wasn't working for you and now it is. Glad it is working for you now and that is cool that you modified it for your local library.

Archived Comments, replied by Rudi Pittman

Rudi Pittman — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 15:43:51 +0000

Just thought I would mention I used a copy of your script slightly modified to support our local library (Columbus GA) since they use identical library systems...only minor modifications were needed to the name and search url.

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/14720

Archived Comments, replied by Rudi Pittman

Rudi Pittman — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 06:16:48 +0000

..and then I hit reload one more time and it works...weird.

Archived Comments, replied by Rudi Pittman

Rudi Pittman — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 06:14:53 +0000

Installed the script and tried it on the exact book displayed in example...it's no longer working.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0545010225

Archived Comments, replied by Joseph Dilworth

Joseph Dilworth — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 04:13:30 +0000

Dumb newbie question here: Is it possible for one to modify this for their local library system?

Archived Comments, replied by Fat Knowledge

Fat Knowledge — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:54:46 +0000

Hi mmmike,

It is working for me on XP with Firefox 2.0.0.8. I don't know why it wouldn't be working on Mac OS X as well.

Archived Comments, replied by mmmike

mmmike — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 16:39:55 +0000

Hi, I just installed greasemonkey and the linky. Doesn't work, though! I'm on Firefox 2.0.0.8 and Mac OS X 10.4.10. Is the linky still working for other people?

Archived Comments, replied by Jesse Andrews

Jesse Andrews — Wed, 17 Nov 2004 01:06:10 +0000

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