xOCLCNum

Submit an OCLC Number, LCCN or OCLC work ID to this service and get back a list of associated OCLC numbers and brief metadata. OCLC Numbers are sorted by the number of times each items represented is held by a WorldCat Library: highest to lowest.

Status: Production

getVariants: list different variants of same OCLC number
getEditions: list all relevant OCLC numbers and edition information
getMetadata: get metadata

What you get

Who can use it

Non-commercial Use

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Usage Limit

500 queries per day

Query protocols

REST, OpenURL, unAPI

Record formats

XML, JSON, CSV, TEXT, Python, PHP, Ruby, and HTML

Authentication methods

Token
IP

Frequency of Update

Monthly

Base Service URL

http://xisbn.worldcat.org/webservices/xid/

Submitted by admin on Mon, 04/12/2010 - 9:50am

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