WWW::Search::ISBNDB - Search for book information on isbndb.com

This module creates an easy to use interface for searching books on isbndb.com.

  use WWW::Search;  
  my $search = WWW::Search->new('ISBNDB', key => 'abcd1234');
  $search->native_query('born in blood');
  my $result = $search->next_result();
  while (my $result = $search->next_result() ) {
	print "$result->title ($result->{'isbn'} - $result->{'book_id})\n";
	print " -- $result->{'titlelong'}\n";
	print "  '$result->{'summary'}'\n";
  }

This prepares the search by checking for a valid developer key. A developer key can be obtained at isbndb.com and is free.

The logic behind this module is very simple. First we prepare the search query that includes the access_key, search type, search value and display options and fetch the page with LWP::UserAgent. Once we have the results, we use XML::Simple to sift through them and populate a WWW::SearchResult object.

Note that because of the complexity of the search result, it does not have all of the default WWW::SearchResult fields. The extra fields are contained within the object hash and consist of the following:

  book_id
  idbn
  language
  summary
  titlelong
  notes

Nick Gerakines, <nick@socklabs.com>

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-www-search-isbndb@rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=WWW-Search-ISBNDB. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

Thanks to isbndb.com for the data that powers this module.

Copyright 2005 Nick Gerakines, all rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.