About

WorldCat-Bot adds search links to WorldCat inside Google Wave. It is an unofficial project, not currently affiliated with WorldCat, OCLC, or any of its affiliates. It is hosted on the Google App Engine here

Usage

First, add WorldCat-Bot to your wave by adding the address worldcat-bot@appspot.com. Then add a search anywhere in your text, it will look like this

<wc:(author|title|isbn|issn|keyword|number|subject) {your search goes here}>

You have to pick one of the fields to search on (author, title, etc). Otherwise, It will search on all fields. Here's an example

<wc:author arthur conan doyle}>

It will return a link to that search on WorldCat, like this

http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au:arthur+conan+doyle

FAQ

The result isn't hyperlinked!

This is a problem with Wave. Usually you can click the link even if it isn't blue and underlined (I know it works for Firefox and Chrome). If not, try clicking edit then done on the blip to re-submit.

Yea, this sometimes happens with Wave. It's still a preview release. Hopefully, Google will address this soon.