selverob/martinus-scrape

A book information scraper for Martinus.sk

#Martinus-scrape

Martinus-scrape is a package that lets you download book data from Martinus.sk online bookshop.

You can call getBook with any search term you want, but if you want to search for ISBNs, use normalizeISBN, because the search engine only accepts ISBNs without dashes.

##Usage

var m = require("martinus-scrape")
m.getBook(m.normalizeISBN("80-7145-606-3"), function(err, book) {
	if(!err) {
		console.log(book)
	}
});

prints

[ { title: 'Pán Prsteňov - kolekcia I. II. III.',
    authors: ['J.R.R. Tolkien'],
    publisher: 'Slovart',
    ISBN: '8071456063',
    pubYear: 2002,
    description: *The description of the book*,
    price: 44.85,
    pages: 1243,
    imageUrl: 'http://martinus.sk/data/tovar/_l/11/l11304.jpg',
    url: 'http://www.martinus.sk/?uItem=11304' },
  { title: 'Pán Prsteňov I. - Spoločenstvo Prsteňa',
    authors: ['J.R.R. Tolkien'],
    publisher: 'Slovart',
    ISBN: '8071456063',
    pubYear: 2001,
    description: *The description of the book*,
    price: 14.95,
    pages: 454,
    imageUrl: 'http://martinus.sk/data/tovar/_l/9/l9687.jpg',
    url: 'http://www.martinus.sk/?uItem=9687' } ]

##Limitations Martinus-scrape only downloads the first 20 search results (the first page). Its intended use is in collection management software, where you know pretty well what you're searching for, so I don't think any more are needed. Anyway, since Martinus.sk has no public API and this is just an HTML scraper, I'm not sure any other use would even be legal.