Example of processing a list of IDs querying the API

Say, you have a list of IDs and want to check if these are of type Journal. You can use the API like this:

curl "http://lobid.org/resource?id=$i&type=http://purl.org/ontology/bibo/Journal"

and consecutively insert the IDs, where $i is the id you want to check. You can automize this using loops, e.g. in bash:

#!/bin/bash
for i in $(cat idList.txt); do
        curl -s "http://lobid.org/resource?id=$i&type=http://purl.org/ontology/bibo/Journal" |
        grep -v '#totalResults":0' |
        sed -e 's#.*\(hbzId\)":"\(\w\w[0-9]\{9\}\).*#\2#g'
done

where you get the IDs residing in the file idList. Note that the file must be properly formatted, that is one ID per line. You may also make this formatting automatically and write the result to idListOfCheckedType.txt like this:

#!/bin/bash
for i in $(
        for a in $(cat idList.txt); do
                echo $a |
                grep  ^HT |
                tr ',' '\n'
        done ); do
        curl -s "http://lobid.org/resource?id=$i&type=http://purl.org/ontology/bibo/Journal" |
        grep -v '#totalResults":0' |
        sed -e 's#.*\(hbzId\)":"\(\w\w[0-9]\{9\}\).*#\2#g' >> idListOfCheckedType.txt
done