openlibrary-client 0.0.20

Installation

If you plan on doing MARC parsing, you’ll need yaz (see: https://github.com/indexdata/yaz). Assuming Ubuntu/debian, you can install yaz via apt:

$ sudo apt install yaz

For Fedora/RHEL, use the following command to install yaz

$ sudo dnf install yaz

You’ll also need python dev tools:

$ sudo apt install python-dev   # for python 2
$ sudo apt install python3-dev  # for python 3

For Fedora/RHEL, use:

$ sudo dnf install python2-devel  # for python2.x installs
$ sudo dnf install python3-devel  # for python3.x installs

To install the openlibrary-client package:

$ git clone https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary-client.git
$ cd openlibrary-client
$ pip install .

Configuration

Many Open Library actions (like creating Works and Editions) require authentication, i.e. certain requests must be provided a valid cookie of a user which has been logged in with their openlibrary account credentials. The openlibrary-client can be configured to “remember you” so you don’t have to provide credentials with each request.

First time users may run the following command to enable the “remember me” feature. This process will ask for an Archive.org email and password, will authenticate the credentials, and then store the account’s corresponding s3 keys in ~/.config/ol.ini (or whichever config location the user has specified):

$ ol --configure --email mek@archive.org
password: ***********
Successfully configured

Usage

Python Library

For more examples, you can take a look at our examples directory on Python Scripts for specific use cases that are needed.

>>> from olclient.openlibrary import OpenLibrary
>>> import olclient.common as common
>>> ol = OpenLibrary()
>>> book = common.Book(title=u"Warlight: A novel", authors=[common.Author(name=u"Michael Ondaatje")], publisher=u"Deckle Edge", publish_date=u"2018")
>>> book.add_id(u'isbn_10', u'0525521194')
>>> book.add_id(u'isbn_13', u'978-0525521198')
>>> new_book = ol.create_book(book)
>>> new_book.add_bookcover('https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51kmM%2BvVRJL._SX337_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg')

>>> from olclient.openlibrary import OpenLibrary
>>> ol = OpenLibrary()
>>> work = ol.Work.get(u'OL12938932W')
>>> editions = work.editions