Code Libraries

Title	Contact Name	Programming Language
biblio.webquery Open source xISBN (and isbndb) Python library		Python
PHP Function for WorldCat API OpenSearch Requests Given OpenSearch parameter values and a valid OCLC web service key, formats a WorldCat API OpenSearch request URL, gets a request response, transforms the response into a PHP Array, and returns the array.	Bruce Washburn	PHP
Python Module for working with the WorldCat API and xID worldcat is an open source module for the Python programming language that interacts with the WorldCat Search API and the xISBN/xLCCN/xOCLCNUM/xISSN web services. Developers can build working prototypes rapidly using the bibliographic, holdings and citation information available in WorldCat records. Sample applications, such as Google Maps, interface for displaying holdings information and a subject-based book recommender are included.	Mark Matienzo	Python
WorldCat Identities Widget Library created at the WorldCat Mashathon Amsterdam. Allows Identities to be accessed via PPN or OCLC Number and last name. Returns results in XML or JSON formats	Bruce Washburn	PHP
WorldCat Search API Ruby Gem This gem provides the rudimentary components for Ruby to make it easier to process OCLC-provided data. Essentially, these are a handful of convenience functions that make it much easier to call and utilize the data available through the WorldCat Search API.	Terry Reese	Ruby
xISBN Ruby library OCLC's xISBN web service allows you to look up other editions of a particular work using an ISBN. xisbn is a simple ruby library for doing these lookups.		Ruby

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