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Old 03-09-2021, 09:06 PM   #1513
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Originally Posted by ownedbycats View Post
Maybe.

Open Library has catalog records available as RDFs/JSON/sometimes OPDs. So maybe to find the book, grab the records, and then parse them for input to columns.
If they have an API, it generally makes it easier. Parsing JSON is a lot easier than a page. You might end up with a mix. The search is done by scraping the page, but the details come from the API. Though for Goodreads it is the other way round.
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