isbn.Amazon

Class Amazon

object --+ | SRU --+ | Amazon

Fetch bookinformation from Amazon using ecs. See http://aws.amazon.com/

An instance of Amazon may on success hold the following keys in its result variable:

title: the book title.

author: a list of full names of the author(s).

date: the date of publication.

publisher: the name of the publisher.

binding: the type of binding, e.g. 'hardcover'.

price: the list price (a float).

currency: the currency code, e.g. 'GBP'.

cover: the filename of the downloaded cover image.

Instance Methods

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__init__(self, AWSId=None, AWSKey=None, endpoint='ecs.amazonaws.co.uk', uri='/onca/xml')
Returns: an SRU instance. source code

fetch(self, isbn)
Retrieve information about a book based on isbn number.

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Inherited from SRU: getName, retrieve

Inherited from object: __delattr__, __format__, __getattribute__, __hash__, __new__, __reduce__, __reduce_ex__, __repr__, __setattr__, __sizeof__, __str__, __subclasshook__

Properties

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Inherited from object: __class__

init(self, AWSId=None, AWSKey=None, endpoint=`'ecs.amazonaws.co.uk'`, uri=`'/onca/xml'`)
(Constructor)

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x.__init__(...) initializes x; see x.__class__.__doc__ for signature

Parameters:

AWSId (string.) - an Amazon AWS Id.
AWSKey (string.) - an Amazon AWS Key.
endpoint (string.) - fully qualified domain name of ecs server. defaults to uk but .com may be appropriate as well.
uri (string.
Note: if AWSId is None, the id and key are set from the globally saved variables. This makes it possible not to use keys in the code but read them from a config file with config().

Example:
```
   import isbn
   isbn.config('keys.ini')
   a=isbn.Amazon()
   print a.result
```
) - path to service.

Returns:

an SRU instance.

Overrides: object.__init__

fetch(self, isbn)

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Retrieve information about a book based on isbn number.

Parameters:

isbn - an isbn-10 or isbn-13 number.

Returns:

nothing, result is stored in result.

Raises:

SRUError - if no result could be retrieved.

Overrides: SRU.fetch

(inherited documentation)

Class Amazon

__init__(self, AWSId=None, AWSKey=None, endpoint='ecs.amazonaws.co.uk', uri='/onca/xml') (Constructor)

fetch(self, isbn)

init(self, AWSId=None, AWSKey=None, endpoint=`'ecs.amazonaws.co.uk'`, uri=`'/onca/xml'`)
(Constructor)