Tools for working with ISNI APIs

Tools

Web browsers

• Plugin for viewing response XML: XV

Python

• Requests for making API calls

• Beautiful Soup for parsing XML

• example script: https://github.com/eslao/isni_triage/blob/master/isni_matching.py

If you don’t feel comfortable with Python or don’t need to collaborate:

• OpenRefine or RefinePro ease the creation of API calls based on spreadsheet data, and come with HTML parsing functions that are sufficient for basic XML parsing

XSLT

• A sample XSLT for searching the Search API (public version) with a test XML

Tutorials

Codecademy: APIs (tutorials for each specific API come with a “how to use APIs” lesson; coding languages vary)

OpenRefine: Fetching URLs from Web Services