oclc_to_marc.py

"""Find marc record URL from oclc number.

Usage: python oclc_to_marc.py oclc_1 oclc_2
"""
from __future__ import print_function
import urllib
import simplejson

root = "http://openlibrary.org"

def wget(path):
    return simplejson.loads(urllib.urlopen(root + path).read())

def find_marc_url(d):
    if d.get('source_records'):
        return d['source_records'][0]

    # some times initial revision is 2 instead of 1. So taking first 3 revisions (in reverse order)
    # and picking the machine comment from the last one
    result = wget('%s.json?m=history&offset=%d' % (d['key'], d['revision']-3))
    if result:
        return result[-1]['machine_comment'] or ""
    else:
        return ""

def main(oclc):
    query = urllib.urlencode({'type': '/type/edition', 'oclc_numbers': oclc, '*': ''})
    result = wget('/query.json?' + query)

    for d in result:
        print("\t".join([oclc, d['key'], find_marc_url(d)]))

if __name__ == "__main__":
    import sys
    if len(sys.argv) == 1 or "-h" in sys.argv or "--help" in sys.argv:
        print(__doc__, file=sys.stderr)
    else:
        for oclc in sys.argv[1:]:
            main(oclc)