hi would it be a stretch to include on the koha opac search a link to amazon to get more info like see this book. I've been looking at cpan net::amazon. The heavy example script from net::amazon looks good but it returns info from amazon in xml The idea would be the koha opac seach result returns a link to amazon with the isbn from the koha database [as an option] You can not just add the isbn to the url. The amazon url contains the isbn but also contains a pointer to their database which changes depending on the isbn entered. I'm guessing a script could be written to open amazon and tab down to their search box. Then apply the isbn from koha and simulate a cr or enter. Any thought on how to do this? thanks re-v __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com
On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 06:29:38AM -0800, mike re-v said:
hi would it be a stretch to include on the koha opac search a link to amazon to get more info like see this book. I've been looking at cpan net::amazon. The heavy example script from net::amazon looks good but it returns info from amazon in xml
Hiya I actually wrote a script a while back, that fetches review data from amazon. It then populates the Koha database with it. So that in the opac you can display peoples reviews from amazon if you want. The Amazon hacks book from Oreilly has tons of neat code snippets to allow you to do things like this. I could commit the reviews script to the unstable branch, perhaps we could build some more scripts like this. Chris -- Chris Cormack Programmer 027 4500 789 Katipo Communications Ltd chris@katipo.co.nz www.katipo.co.nz
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