NAME

WWW::Search::ISBNDB - Search for book information on isbndb.com

VERSION

Version 0.01

SYNOPSIS

This module creates an easy to use interface for searching books on isbndb.com.

use WWW::Search;  
my $search = WWW::Search->new('ISBNDB', key => 'abcd1234');
$search->native_query("born in blood");
while (my $result = $search->next_result() ) {
  print $result->{isbn}.' - '.$result->{book_id}, "\n";
  print $result->{title}.' - '.$result->url, "\n";
}

DETAILS

native_setup_search

This prepares the search by checking for a valid developer key. A developer key can be obtained at isbndb.com and is free.

native_retrieve_some

The logic behind this module is very simple. First we prepare the search query that includes the access_key, search type, search value and display options and fetch the page with LWP::UserAgent. Once we have the results, we use XML::Simple to sift through them and populate a WWW::SearchResult object.

Note that because of the complexity of the search result, it does not have all of the default WWW::SearchResult fields. The extra fields are contained within the object hash and consist of the following:

book_id
idbn
language
summary
titlelong
notes

INSTALLATION

To install this module, run the following commands:

perl Build.PL
./Build
./Build test
./Build install

AUTHOR

Nick Gerakines, <nick@socklabs.com>

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-www-search-isbndb@rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=WWW-Search-ISBNDB. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Thanks to isbndb.com for the data that powers this module.

I have no affiliation whatsoever with this website, staff or affiliates.

If you are bored, check out my website: http://www.socklabs.com/

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

Copyright 2005 Nick Gerakines, all rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.