some tricky plug-in issues

[benspigel]

Hi, I’m trying to create some plugins for research databases, but I’m running into some problems that I don’t know how to deal with.

The first is urls with psudo-random numbers in it. For example, in searching the library at Ohio State University, when you advance to the next page, the URL is based on the total number of results. How would I make a plugin for this?

The second problem I run into is databases that hide the URL through frames. As it is right now, GeoBase’s URL doesn’t change durring a search, its the same thing no matter what you try. Does anyone have any experience dealing with this?

Any help would be appriciated.

[cgrunenberg]

@benspigel

The first is urls with psudo-random numbers in it. For example, in searching the library at Ohio State University, when you advance to the next page, the URL is based on the total number of results. How would I make a plugin for this?

You could try to remove the number of results from the URL - maybe this parameter isn’t necessary.

The second problem I run into is databases that hide the URL through frames. As it is right now, GeoBase’s URL doesn’t change durring a search, its the same thing no matter what you try. Does anyone have any experience dealing with this?

Just right- or control-click on the frame and choose “Open Frame In New Tab”.