Tools
Web browsers
- Plugin for viewing response XML: XV
Python
Requests for making API calls
Beautiful Soup for parsing XML
example script: https://github.com/eslao/isni_triage/blob/master/isni_matching.py
If you don’t feel comfortable with Python or don’t need to collaborate:
OpenRefine or RefinePro ease the creation of API calls based on spreadsheet data, and come with HTML parsing functions that are sufficient for basic XML parsing
XSLT
Tutorials
Codecademy: APIs (tutorials for each specific API come with a “how to use APIs” lesson; coding languages vary)
OpenRefine: Fetching URLs from Web Services