xsearch_crawl: Retrieve more records from LIBRIS Xsearch API in batches

In KTH-Library/XsearchLIBRIS: Data from LIBRIS - Swedish National Library Systems Xsearch API

Retrieve more records from LIBRIS Xsearch API in batches

Description

This function retrieves batches of record (paging through results) for between 200 and 10000 records in one go, displays a progress bar while progressing and then returns all results.

Usage

xsearch_crawl(...)

Arguments

...

Arguments passed on to xsearch query text query as defined by the custom query language described here http://librishelp.libris.kb.se/help/search_language_swe.jsp Operators are: ⁠AND, OR, NOT, ADJ, SAME, XOR⁠ A short list of examples follow below. author is Ludwig Wittgenstein: forf:(Ludwig+Wittgenstein) publications with title "Röda rummet": TIT:"Röda rummet" publications with a set of titles (experiment or experiments or experimental): ⁠TIT=experiment OR TIT:experiments OR TIT:experimental⁠ publications by Horatius Quintus: ⁠PERS:(Horatius Quintus)⁠ start integer that specifies the starting position in a hitlist from which records should be taken n the number of records to be retrieved, to a maximum of 200 order sort order, one of "rank", "alphabetical", "-alphabetical", "chronological", "-chronological" where an opening hyphen stands for sorting in reverse order format_level one of "brief" or "full", which specifies whether “see” or ”see also” links to authority forms (9XX fields) should be included. holdings boolean defaulting to FALSE, specifies whether holding information should be included. Works only with the marcxml and mods formats. database one of "libris" or "swepub" api_config a configuration setting for the search API including base URL etc, by default from config()

Details

The database used can be specified - the default is to use LIBRIS but "swepub" is also available

Value

results records returned from the search

Examples

## Not run: 
xsearch_crawl(query = "corona", database = "swepub")

## End(Not run)

KTH-Library/XsearchLIBRIS documentation built on Jan. 29, 2025, 5:14 p.m.