bookcovers
A federated search API for finding image thumbnails for book covers.
Performs a combined search of Amazon, Google Books and Open Library to find thumbnails corresponding to isbn numbers.
bookcovers is node library and cli tool. It currently does not work in browser environments.
Install
npm i -g bookcovers;
Example Usage
As a library within a node application:
const bookcovers = require("bookcovers");
bookcovers
.withIsbn("9781570273148")
.then(results => ...);
With scrapping options:
const bookcovers = require("bookcovers");
const options = {
amazon: { /* options for puppeter.launch(options) */ },
google: { /* options for request(url, options) */ },
openLibrary: { /* options for request(url, options) */ },
type: 'amazon|google|openLibrary' /* for doing request to single provider */
}
bookcovers
.withIsbn("9781570273148", options)
.then(results => ...);
As a cli:
bookcovers <isbn>;
# logs out book cover data in the form "<source> <size> <url>"
Specify which service to use:
bookcovers <isbn> --type amazon;
# only searches Amazon
API
bookcovers.withIsbn(isbn: string, options?: { ... });
Returns a promise that resolves to an object containing urls from each of the sources.
{
amazon: {
'1x': 'https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51z2HY7kn4L._AC_UY218_ML3_.jpg',
'1.5x': 'https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51z2HY7kn4L._AC_UY327_FMwebp_QL65_.jpg',
'2x': 'https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51z2HY7kn4L._AC_UY436_FMwebp_QL65_.jpg',
'2.2935x':'https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51z2HY7kn4L._AC_UY500_FMwebp_QL65_.jpg'
},
google: {
smallThumbnail: 'http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wDVV6y-8YHEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&source=gbs_api',
thumbnail: 'http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wDVV6y-8YHEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api'
},
openLibrary: {
small: 'http://ia801606.us.archive.org/zipview.php?zip=/26/items/olcovers36/olcovers36-S.zip&file=369091-S.jpg',
medium: 'http://ia801606.us.archive.org/zipview.php?zip=/26/items/olcovers36/olcovers36-M.zip&file=369091-M.jpg',
large: 'http://ia801606.us.archive.org/zipview.php?zip=/26/items/olcovers36/olcovers36-L.zip&file=369091-L.jpg'
}
}
Options
type
- Specify a service:'amazon' | 'google' | 'openLibrary'
. Default:null
(all).amazon
- Specify options for puppeteer scrapper of amazongoogle
- Specify options for request scrapper of googleopenLibrary
- Specify options for request scrapper of openLibrary