Kotlin/Java library to get book information by ISBN from web databases
BookGrabber
A Kotlin/Java library to get book information and covers from the internet.
API
BookGrabber currently supports the following operations:
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Get book information by ISBN:
BookGrabber.getBookByISBN(String isbn) -
Get book cover from URL:
BookGrabber.getCoverFromURL(String url)
Java Example
import org.pickwicksoft.bookgrabber.BookGrabber;
import org.pickwicksoft.bookgrabber.model.Book;
// Get book information by ISBN
// Instantiate BookGrabber
BookGrabber bookGrabber = new BookGrabber();
// Get book information by ISBN
Optional<Book> book = bookGrabber.getBookByISBN("978-3-257-23045-1");
// Check if book is present in the Optional
if (book.isPresent()) {
System.out.println(book);
// Get book cover from book cover URL
Optional<byte[]> cover = bookGrabber.getCoverFromURL(book.get()
.getCover().getLarge());
}
Kotlin Example
import org.pickwicksoft.bookgrabber.BookGrabber
val grabber = BookGrabber()
val book = grabber.getBookByISBN("978-3-257-23045-1")
if (book.isPresent) {
println(book)
val cover = grabber.getCoverFromURL(book.get().cover.large)
}