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Advance customization, getting additional book information
I'd like to be able to use DL to get other information from along with the info that Amazon provides As an example, I'd like to be able to get Lexile score (which I can get if I post the book's title or ISBN info). The score helps to determine the grade level of books ( I have a lot of children books) have been rated for. I know that having something like this would be something that teachers and home schooled parents would really appreciate.
I've written a perl script that uses the exported library to get what I need, but that info is not available to DL. If there was a way for me to add that to the books in my library, would be another good work around.
I've written a perl script that uses the exported library to get what I need, but that info is not available to DL. If there was a way for me to add that to the books in my library, would be another good work around.
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Inappropriate?DL2 is completely scriptable -- you can write AppleScripts and they'll appear in the menu system wherever you want, or you can write shell scripts or perl scripts or C executables, which will get called with our database filename. The source code for our model is included inside that application bundle if you go the latter route.
I'd advise doing something in AppleScript, since you can get at the selection, and add fields pretty easily, and AppleScripts can call Perl scripts.
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