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webscrape the ISBN-10 values of the 100 most recent books posted to paperbackswap.com
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most recent 100 books posted to paperbackswap.R
library(XML)
url <- "http://www.paperbackswap.com/api/v1/index.php?RequestType=RecentlyPosted&Limit=100"
u <- xmlParse( url )
v <- getNodeSet( u , "/Response/Books/Book/ISBN-10" )
w <- sapply( v , xmlValue )
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