Extract, clean, transform, hyphenate and metadata for ISBNs (International Standard Book Number).
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isbntools provides several useful methods and functions to validate, clean, transform, hyphenate and get metadata for ISBN strings.
Typical usage (as library):
#!/usr/bin/env python
import isbntools
...Several scripts are provided to use from the command line:
$ to_isbn10 ISBN13transforms an ISBN10 number to ISBN13.
$ to_isbn13 ISBN10transforms an ISBN13 number to ISBN10.
$ isbn_info ISBNgives you the group identifier of the ISBN.
$ isbn_mask ISBNmasks (hyphenate) an ISBN (split it by identifiers).
$ isbn_meta ISBNgives you the main metadata associated with the ISBN (uses wcat.org).
$ isbn_validate ISBNvalidates ISBN10 and ISBN13.
$ isbn_stdin_validateto use with posix pipes (e.g. cat ISBNs | isbn_stdin_validate).
$ isbntoolswrites version and copyright notice.
Many more scripts could be written with the isbntools library, using the methods for extraction, cleaning, validation and standardization of ISBNs.
Just for fun, suppose I want the most spoken about book with certain words in his title. For a quick-and-dirty solution, enter the following code in a file and save it as isbn_tmsa_book.py.
#!/usr/bin/env python
import sys
import urllib2
from isbntools import *
query = sys.argv[1].replace(' ', '+')
SEARCH_URL = "http://www.google.com/search?q=%s+ISBN" % query
headers = {'User-Agent': 'w3m/0.5.2'}
request = urllib2.Request(SEARCH_URL, headers=headers)
response = urllib2.urlopen(request)
content = response.read()
isbns = get_isbnlike(content)
for item in isbns:
ib = get_canonical_isbn(item, output='ISBN-13')
if ib: break
print("The ISBN of the most `spoken-about` book with this title is %s" % ib)
print("")
print("... and the book is:")
print("")
print((meta(ib)))Then in a command line (in the same directory):
$ python isbn_tmsa_book.py 'noise'In my case I get:
The ISBN of the most `spoken-about` book with this title is 9780143105985
... and the book is:
{'Publisher': u'Penguin Books', 'Language': u'eng', 'Title': u'White noise',
'Year': u'2009', 'ISBN-13': '9780143105985', 'Authors': u'Don DeLillo ;
introduction by Richard Powers.'}
Have fun!
Install
From a command line enter:
$ pip install isbntoolsor:
$ easy_install isbntoolsor:
$ pip install isbntools-0.8.1.tar.gz(first you have to download the file!)
Known Issues
The meta method and the isbn_meta script sometimes give a wrong result (this is due to errors on the wcat.org service)
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