tpl

Searches the Toronto Public Library catalogue






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Old implementation:
http://catalogue.torontopubliclibrary.ca/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?srchfield1=GENERAL^SUBJECT^GENERAL^^Words+or+phrase&searchdata1=%s&searchoper1=AND&srchfield2=AU^AUTHOR^AUTHORS^Author+Processing^Author&searchdata2=${au}&searchoper2=AND&srchfield3=TI^TITLE^SERIES^Title+Processing^Title&searchdata3=${ti}&searchoper3=AND&srchfield4=SU^SUBJECT^SUBJECTS^^Subject&searchdata4=${su}&searchoper4=AND&srchfield5=SER^SERIES^SERIES^Title+Processing^Series&searchdata5=${ser}&searchoper5=AND&srchfield6=PER^PERTITLE^SERIES^Title+Processing^Periodical+title&searchdata6=${per}&library=${lib=ALL_BUT_SB}&language=${lan=ANY}&item_1cat=${format=ANY}&pubyear=${year}&item_2cat=${age=ANY}&sort_by=NONE&format=&item_type=&location=&shadow=NO

Searches the Toronto Public Library catalogue for books and media. When called without switches, it executes a simple keyword search on the whole catalogue.  But I've also tried to include all the options currently available from the advanced search page.  

These are the available search parameters:

search types:
-au    author name
-ti    title
-su    subject word(s)
-ser   series words
-per   periodical title

limits:
-lib      library abbreviation, usually the first letter 
          each word in the branch name, CAPITALIZED.
-lan      language.  MUST BE WRITTEN IN CAPITALS.
-format   item format. You have to know the code name for 
          a format to search this way.  
-year     year of publication
-age      approximate age category.  again, you need to know 
          the category codes.

The search parameters work in a perfectly predictable way, but the limiting parameters are very sensitive -- to use them, you should look carefully at the results of a normal search.  I haven't had time to document them yet.  

corrects erros in tpl2