ImranR98 / ISBN-Lookup

Finds book titles for a list of ISBN codes using various APIs.

ISBN Lookup

Finds book titles for a list of ISBN codes using various APIs.

Usage

1. Clone the repository or download the ZIP file and extract it to a local directory.
2. Install the required dependencies by running npm install.
3. Optional: Define a .env file with an ISBNDB_API_KEY variable.
4. Run npm start to start the web app
   • Or use the CLI version by running node cli.js <input file> where <input file> is a txt or xlsx file containing a list of ISBNs (output will be generated as an xlsx).

APIs Used

The following APIs are tried (results are sorted by descending order of title length):

1. ISBNdb (if an API key is available in the ISBNDB_API_KEY environment variable)
2. Google Books
3. Open Library