A Python module to retrieve book info by ISBN

Introduction

This module provides functionality fetch information on a book (like author and title) when given a isbn number.

At this moment it provides classes to retrieve information from Amazon via aws (you need a (free) license key), from libraries via sru (at this moment: Library of Congress, Britisch Library (Copac), nd the dutch Koninklijke Bibliotheek) or from isbndb.com (you need a (free) license key)via an ad-hoc webservice.

The Amazon implementation also retrieves information such as price, binding and a cover image if avavilable.

Check the navigation bar on your right to download the module and the epydoc generated documenation. Installation is straight foraward: just copy isbn.py to a location where Python can find it, e.g. Lib/site-packages/. The current implementation is tested with Python 2.6.x and will not work on Python 3.x although porting is simple as probably just the print statements will have to be converted.

Example

Example usage: 

import isbn

isbn.config()                      # read keys from keys.conf
result=isbn.fetch('978123456789X')  # get info
You only need to read keys.conf if you want the Amazon or isbndb.com implementations to be used. Each class can of course also be used stand alone: 
import isbn

service=isbn.Amazon(AWSId='my AWS id',AWSKey='my AWS key')
service.fetch('978123456789X')
print service.result

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