BookCrossing doesn't have an API right now (it seems in the roadmap that it's planned, but with no expected date of arrival). Any ideas on how to quickly get the current location of a specific book?
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If you have a database of books to look up, then IRobotSoft visual web scraper is a good choice.
seagulf
2010-10-26 15:33:42
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We use http://scrapy.org/ and iMacros Web Scraping in such cases (Scrapy for headless scraping, iMacros when a web browser is required.
FrankJK
2010-10-27 21:11:24