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Boilerplate4U · 03-31-2021, 12:12 PM

What I meant is that many of the older variants are far too complex in their structure to find the central thread. It seems like the api documents would need some simple "howtos" that explain the basic process. Some simple source code templates would be useful as well.

Scraping content using xpath is quite easy nowadays when you have helper tools like xPather.com and Google Xpath Helper. Some of the lager content sites I'm going to use also offer api:s like marcxml/marc21 and json-ld which makes things a lot easier.

When I have some time, I gonna fix a basic HOWTO together with a corresponding code example for future references and put it on github.

Btw, do you know if the metadata plugins are running in parallel or in series (ie when multiple plugins are activated) ??

03-31-2021, 12:12 PM	#4
Boilerplate4U Enthusiast Posts: 38 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2020 Device: Kobo Clara HD	What I meant is that many of the older variants are far too complex in their structure to find the central thread. It seems like the api documents would need some simple "howtos" that explain the basic process. Some simple source code templates would be useful as well. Scraping content using xpath is quite easy nowadays when you have helper tools like xPather.com and Google Xpath Helper. Some of the lager content sites I'm going to use also offer api:s like marcxml/marc21 and json-ld which makes things a lot easier. When I have some time, I gonna fix a basic HOWTO together with a corresponding code example for future references and put it on github. Btw, do you know if the metadata plugins are running in parallel or in series (ie when multiple plugins are activated) ?? Last edited by Boilerplate4U; 03-31-2021 at 12:26 PM.