Crawl or import from a URL with a list (ftlist or search result)
janusman - October 31, 2009 - 00:01
| Project: | Millennium Integration |
| Version: | 6.x-2.x-dev |
| Component: | Miscellaneous |
| Category: | feature request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | active |
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Description
Some libraries have featured lists of items; it would be nice to be able to get the module to import/update items from those lists.
Also, just crawling from a search might be good too. E.g.: import items for search for "branch:branch123 mattype:mattypea", or just a plain keyword search.
It'd also be nice to configure a maximum number of pages to crawl to get records to import (or a maximum total number of items) since, potentially, up to 32,000 items could be harvested in searches (unknown for ftlists)
#1
This would be a good feature. Also, importing the items from an RSS (a simple regexp would be able to extract bib-ids from an RSS feed or any other web source for that matter).
I'm not sure how well Millennium supports crawling from a search, though. At least the record ids are not visible in the search results.. Maybe using the cart somehow could enable this..
#2
On first look, search seems simple enough, too. The "Add to cart" button or checkbox contains the required bib number, so again, it's just a matter of a regexp. Finding the "Next page" link also seems [relatively] straightforward. =)
Extra points: I'd love a bookmarklet to say, "import all items on the current page", or maybe "Import my current bookcart's contents" =)