As part of a project I’ve been working on, I’m exploring using the Open Library API to get books someone has written. <\/p>\n
Their API gives you ISBNs (and many other identifiers), which you presumably can use against the Amazon Product API. It is a bit sensitive to extra tokens (e.g. titles and name prefixes), so you should update the regex to match what your data has in it.<\/p>\n
I save the results, for later processing – if the response is 66 bytes, it means nothing was found at all.<\/p>\n
\nauthor = author.split('(')[0]\nfilename = 'authors\/' + author + '.txt'\n\nif (not os.path.isfile(filename)):\n author = re.sub(r'\\b(Dr|Professor|Alderman)\\b', r'', author.strip())\n \nurl = 'http:\/\/openlibrary.org\/search.json?author=' + quote(author)\nhttpresponse = urlopen(url).read().decode('utf8')\nif (len(httpresponse) > 66):\n f = open(filename, 'w') \n f.write(httpresponse)\n f.close()\n<\/pre>\nFrom manually inspecting a few of these, they seem to return everything (not paged), so this is a pretty simple API to use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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