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