[Koha-devel] Cover image lookup via UPC

[David Cook]

As far as I know, we don’t use UPCs for books in Australia. 

Looking at my bookshelf now to see if I have any American books. All the Australian, Canadian, and European books I have only use ISBN barcodes. 

 

Sorry for a total lack of help : ) 

 

David Cook

Systems Librarian

Prosentient Systems

72/330 Wattle St

Ultimo, NSW 2007

Australia

 

Office: 02 9212 0899

Direct: 02 8005 0595

 

From: koha-devel-bounces at lists.koha-community.org [mailto:koha-devel-bounces at lists.koha-community.org] On Behalf Of Barton Chittenden
Sent: Wednesday, 31 January 2018 11:19 AM
To: Koha-devel <koha-devel at lists.koha-community.org>
Subject: [Koha-devel] Cover image lookup via UPC

 

I've been trying to find out whether pulling cover images via Universal Product Code would be possible from Amazon and Google.

 

I did some digging; we're doing this via Syndetics and Baker & Taylor already, so the groundwork is already partially laid:

 

Bug 14607   : Make Baker & Taylor cover images accessible by UPC as well as ISBN

URL         : https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=14607

Priority    : P5 - low

Assigned To : jweaver at bywatersolutions.com <mailto:jweaver at bywatersolutions.com> 

Urgency     : enhancement

Status      : CLOSED

 

Bug 15388   : Show Syndetics covers by UPC in search results

URL         : https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=15388

Priority    : P5 - low

Assigned To : nick at bywatersolutions.com <mailto:nick at bywatersolutions.com> 

Urgency     : enhancement

Status      : RESOLVED

 

What little googling I've done for Amazon seems to indicate that they have the ability to look up items and their product images via UPC, although I'm not clear if that's available across all locales. I haven't looked at Google yet.

 

I haven't see any bugs filed for this -- has anyone else done any research on using UPC lookup for Amazon or Google?

 

--Barton

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