I want to extract bibliographic data from Amazon pages

[Trevor Jenkins <bslwannabe-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

My current workflow for getting bibliographic data from Amazon’s book listings is failing. I use BibDesk as my primary citation manager but it does not extract data from Amazon listing so for that I use a lashed up scheme using Zotero. Zotero has a browser add-on which extracts the bibliographic information from these pages. Then in Zotero I have a third-party script that sends that data to BibDesk. This has worked well for a year or more.

However there are two problems with my method. First is that the third-party script for extraction from Zotero does not work with the current version of the program. I downgraded Zotero to an earlier version and that restore my workflow. Unfortunately it now appears that changes to the browser add-on are not compatible with that older version and my workflow is now dammed as it may or may not add the data to Zotero.

As panda can process both HTML and BibTex formats I wonder if and how I could harness that capability to finally drop Zotero altogether as it was only ever meant to be a stopgap anyway. A simplistic 

pandoc -f html -t bib text …

Using the specific URL for the book I want to add does not work; I did not expect it. Leaves me wonder whether a Lua script might be required to do the job. Not conversant with Lua at all so my idea is on hold. 

Is it possible to get pandoc to do the required extraction and if so what might a Lua script look like?

Regards, Trevor.

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