Wikipedia talk:Book sources

Latest comment: 17 days ago by Nyuhn in topic Dead or broken links
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National Library of Australia catalogue update edit

The National Library of Australia has a new catalogue search string; https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/catalog?search_field=isbn&q=MAGICNUMBER should work, the old one appears not to. 192.102.239.195 (talk) 01:55, 10 August 2023 (UTC)Reply

  Done Updated the link. Alin2808 (talk) 14:37, 10 August 2023 (UTC)Reply
Thanks very kindly! 🙂 192.102.239.195 (talk) 01:58, 11 August 2023 (UTC)Reply

ISBN link to Bookfinder.com edit

I would like the Wikipedia ISBN lookup to include a link to BookFinder.com ISBN search. I use it all the time to locate books I want to buy. There are two different links that I have found to do an ISBN lookup on bookfinder.com.

Link 1: https://www.bookfinder.com/search/?isbn=9780593492307&st=xl&ac=qr

Link 2: https://www.bookfinder.com/isbn/9780241547472/

I like output of "Link 1" the best as it usually gives a blurb about the book and seems to give more information such as clickable links to author name etc. -- Ubh [talk... contribs...] 14:23, 12 September 2023 (UTC)Reply

@Ubh: BookFinder is already here at Wikipedia:Book sources#Price comparison sites. Alin2808 (talk) 23:00, 12 September 2023 (UTC)Reply

Amazon link broken edit

The link under "Online Text" for Amazon takes me to a page that just says "SORRY something went wrong on our end" no matter which ISBN I'm looking for. Other language Amazons have similar error messages. The other two links seem to work fine when the book is found in their respective databases, but Amazon doesn't return a valid response for anything I tried. Perhaps they changed the URL format? Kdroo (talk) 00:11, 29 November 2023 (UTC)Reply

Give example of the links that are not working. – Ammarpad (talk) 12:45, 29 November 2023 (UTC)Reply
Using the two ISBNs from the section above: [1][2], or you could enter any ISBN into Special:BookSources to get a link as well. Kdroo (talk) 16:30, 29 November 2023 (UTC)Reply
Both links work for me. Special:BookSources generates same links, so it also works.
Can you access https://www.amazon.com?. If yes, paste 9780593492307 directly into the search bar there and see if it works. – Ammarpad (talk) 16:44, 29 November 2023 (UTC)Reply
Huh. I just went to amazon.com, and it asked me to enter a captcha to prove I wasn't a robot (I'm not logged in on this device). After doing that, the links started working. Never seen that before. Thanks, Kdroo (talk) 17:09, 29 November 2023 (UTC)Reply

Dead or broken links edit

  1. Bookcascade
  2. Shopwiki

All the best: Rich Farmbrough 18:41, 10 January 2024 (UTC).Reply

  Done. Shopwiki SSL certificate expired 4 years ago, but it still operational via http. Nyuhn (talk) 20:40, 1 March 2024 (UTC)Reply