Merge branch 'jrouly/bookshare-master'

bookshare/templates/charts.html

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ SRCT Bookshare • Charts
 <div class="page-header" id="banner">
   <div class="row">
     <div class="col-lg-12 text-center">
-      <h1><strong>SRCT</strong>BOOKSHARE</h1>
+      <h1><strong>SRCT</strong>&#8203;BOOKSHARE</h1>
       <p class="lead"><strong>Listing Charts</strong></p>
     </div>
   </div>

bookshare/trades/views.py

@@ -31,7 +31,13 @@ def ISBNMetadata(standardISBN):
     url = "http://xisbn.worldcat.org/webservices/xid/isbn/" +\
           str(standardISBN) +\
           "?method=getMetadata&format=json&fl=title,year,author,ed"
-    metadata = requests.get(url)
+
+    # In case the API fails to return, simply return None.
+    try:
+        metadata = requests.get(url, timeout=3)
+    except ConnectionError:
+        return None
+
     # format into a dictionary
     dejson = metadata.json()
     try: