Open Library

Support /search?wisbn=ISBN

Bug #526871 reported by Anand Chitipothu
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Open Library
Fix Released
Medium
Edward Betts
Open Library general-bucket

Bug Description

Edition search had a way to search for ISBN-10 or ISBN-13 using /search?wisbn=ISBN. We should continue to support that to avoid breaking existing links.

For example: wikipedia uses that link here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780596804350

Tags: search
Anand Chitipothu (anandology)
Changed in openlibrary:
milestone: none → upstream
assignee: nobody → Edward Betts (edwardbetts)
importance: Undecided → Medium
summary: - Handle /search?wisbn=ISBN
+ Support /search?wisbn=ISBN
Revision history for this message
George (george-archive) wrote :

Agree that we should support ISBN search.

Just curious - why "wisbn"? Isn't ?isbn= simpler?

Revision history for this message
Anand Chitipothu (anandology) wrote : Re: [Bug 526871] Re: Support /search?wisbn=ISBN

On 24-Feb-10, at 11:00 PM, George wrote:

> Agree that we should support ISBN search.
>
> Just curious - why "wisbn"? Isn't ?isbn= simpler?

No idea. That was added by solrize.

We should continue to support wisbn because we have inward links using
that. We can redirect ?wisbn to ?isbn keep things clean.

Revision history for this message
George (george-archive) wrote :

Update - Search by ISBN works (on Upstream). Still need to support wisbn.

Edward Betts (edwardbetts)
tags: added: search
Edward Betts (edwardbetts)
Changed in openlibrary:
status: New → Fix Released
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