[Web4lib] How to get bestseller lists?

[Ross Singer]

But look at those feeds.  You'd be better off scraping the lists pages.

They are not broken down individually, nor are they formatted in a
particularly useful way.

-Ross.

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Tim McMahon <tmcmahon at wlpl.org> wrote:
> Rachel Davis wrote:
>>
>> Tim McMahon <tmcmahon at wlpl.org> writes:
>>>
>>> My guess is they're using the RSS feed from the nytimes.com web site.
>>
>> No, the New York Time provides lots of RSS feeds, but unfortunately, not
>> to their bestsellers list.
>>
>> Rachel
>>
>> Rachel Q. Davis
>> Children's Librarian
>> Thomas Memorial Library
>> 6 Scott Dyer Road
>> Cape Elizabeth, ME  04107
>> 207-799-1720
>
> I didn't know which sites had the list that the original poster wrote about
> and was guessing they were using
> http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/BestSellers.xml
>
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> Tim McMahon
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