cataloging your books online.

October 14, 2005 7:21 AM

In this metatalk thread I was trying to find a link to a media cataloging web app. What I am trying to do is take a text file of about 1,000 books, delimited by comma, and import it into one of these online social folksonomified library catalogs. Do you know of a free, friendly library web app that allows for importing of text files (I don't have the ISBN numbers, so that rules out LibraryThing) I also don't mind installing a php app, as long as it uses flat text files (it's for a friend who doesn't want to play with mysql)
posted by mecran01 to Computers & Internet (3 answers total)

If you're willing to do a little Perl coding, you can get the ISBNs by searching with for the Title and Author using Net::Amazon.
posted by aneel at 10:23 AM on October 14, 2005

That's a good idea. I can't do a little coding right now, especially in perl, but figuring out a way to scrape and add the isbn's would probably be my best bet. Thanks!
posted by craniac at 10:42 AM on October 14, 2005

Response by poster: PHP equivalent, filzhut.amazon
posted by mecran01 at 12:11 PM on October 14, 2005