node-oclc-search-title
Uses OCLC's Search API to retrieve an item's title based on its OCLC number. This saves you the headache of parsing through XML to retrieve a title.
usage
npm install oclc-search-title
var key = 'abc1234...' // your public WSKey
var TitleSearch = require('oclc-search-title')
var ts = new TitleSearch(key)
ts.search(656296916, function (err, title) {
if (err) throw err
console.log(title)
//=> [ 'Flashdance', 'Flashdance (Motion picture)' ]
})var ts = new TitleSearch(key)
Provide your public WSKey as a string or as an oclc-wskey instance
ts.search(oclcNumber[, opts], callback)
Search for oclcNumber using the Search API. opts can be an object with a
schema key with a value of either 'marcxml' or 'dc'. OCLC provides results
for both MARC records and Dublin Core. For MARC results, we're parsing the
245 datafield, subfields a and b (as per this OCLC page). For
Dublin Core results, we're parsing the <dc:title> fields. dc is used by
default when opts is omitted.
callback recieves the traditional node signature function (err, title) {},
with err consisting of any HTTP error that's returned. title is an array
of results that match the above criteria (note the two titles returned.
Note the Search service will process any OCLC number as long as it's an
unsigned integer, so one that is beyond the current range (826718710000000000000
or even 0) will return an empty array.
license
MIT