Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem 'bookcrawler'
And then execute:
$ bundle
Or install it yourself as:
$ gem install bookcrawler
Set your Amazon credentials as env vars:
export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=...
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=...
export AMAZON_ASSOCIATES_TRACKING_ID=...
Find a book:
crawler = Bookcrawler::Client.new
book = crawler.find_by_title('A Clash of Kings')
# <Bookcrawler::Book:
# asin: "0553579908",
# title: "A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 2)",
# author: "George R. R. Martin",
# detail_page_url: "http://...",
# cover_url: "http://...">
You can fetch the book cover at cover_url. Support for covers is not official in the Amazon Product Advertising API. The url is generated according to this article.
This gem uses Vacuum under the hood.
The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.
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We found that bookcrawler demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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