Hi, I'm new to using Tellico.
Tellico Version 3.1.4
KDE 5.14.5
Debian Linux 10

I have CDs, DVDs, etc.
I would like to do a internet search for them using an ISBN or UPC code.
I don't see how to do this.
The Amazon data source has issues.

I would like to create a NEW data source from https://www.barcodelookup.com
It has an API.
I assume I do this using the "External Application" data source.
Is there any documentation or examples of how to create a script to do this?
I understand there should be a shell script (wget) and xml file, but can't find any documentation on how to set this up.

Any help would be appreciated.

ani wrote:I would like to create a NEW data source from https://www.barcodelookup.com
It has an API.
I assume I do this using the "External Application" data source.
Is there any documentation or examples of how to create a script to do this?
I understand there should be a shell script (wget) and xml file, but can't find any documentation on how to set this up.

The basic outline of how it works is in the documentation
https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/extragear-office/tellico/data-sources-options.html#externalexec
You can check out some (old) examples here:https://store.kde.org/browse/cat/590/order/latest
one of the simplest (doesn't work anymore) is for searching supercat. http://tellico-project.org/files/scripts/tellico-search-supercat.tar.gz That might give you some insight.

Simply put, Tellico just passes search terms to an executable and tries to read the standard output.