Feature request: import by isbn (like current ebib-biblio-import-doi)

[Hugo-Heagren]

I've had to write a number of entries recently for books with an easily available isbn, but no (easily found) doi. It would make life a lot easier if I could simply input the isbn and let an api (like this one?) and some elisp do the work for me. I'd be happy to try implementing this in the future.

Edit: this api looks more promising actually, and does json.

[joostkremers]

This would definitely be great to have. Given my time limitations ATM I don't think I would be able to implement this soon, so if you are willing to do it, feel free to go ahead.

That being said, it may make more sense to implement it as part of biblio.el. Fetching bibliographic information from the web is the essence of what biblio.el does and it comes with facilities to define more fetchers. (I don't know if you could use them in this particular case, but it'd be worth a look.)

Once ISBN search is part of biblio.el, it shouldn't be difficult to add some glue code to ebib-biblio.el similar to ebib-biblio-import-doi.

[Hugo-Heagren]

This is still on the backburner for me, but I happened to see this today, and thought I'd drop a note (probably for my future self) saying the source might be worth inspecting for implementation ideas.

[benthamite]

Note that you can use the command zotra-add-entry-from-search from the zotra package. It downloads bibliographic information associated with multiple identifier types, including ISBNs, and seems to work well (based on a few days of experience).

[Hugo-Heagren]

Just going to drop persid into the conversation as well.

Edit: and the openlibrary api.