worldcatapi

The RUBY API to access WorldCat.org webservices. Inspired by original wcapi implementation

Worldcatapi

Forked from RubyForge WCAPI project. It now lives on rubygems.org for easy installation and usage.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'worldcatapi'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install worldcatapi

NOTE on Nokogiri and Rails:

worldcatapi 1.0.3 requires nokogiri versions 1.5.x, usable for Rails 4.1 or older worldcatapi 1.0.4 requires nokogiri versions 1.6.x, usable for Rails 4.2 or newer

Usage

Clone this project and look at example.rb file.

It outlines all of the available operations.

require 'worldcatapi'

client = WORLDCATAPI::Client.new key: YOUR_KEY
response = client.OpenSearch(q: 'Ruby Development', format: 'atom', start: 1, count: 20, cformat: "all")

puts "Total Results #{response.header["totalResults"]
response.records.each do |record|
    puts "title: #{record[:title]}\n"
    puts "url: #{record[:link]}\n"
    puts "authors: #{record[:author].join(", "}\n"
    puts "description: #{record[:summary]}\n"
end

More examples available in example.rb

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request