@library-pals/isbn
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@library-pals/isbn
An npm module that given an ISBN will return the book's metadata using the following providers:
Acknowledgements
This repository is a fork of node-isbn by Guido García <@palmerabollo>.
Installation
npm install @library-pals/isbn
Supports Node.js versions 20.x and greater.
Examples
import Isbn from "@library-pals/isbn";
try {
const isbn = new Isbn();
const book = await isbn.resolve("9780374104092");
console.log("Book found %j", book);
} catch (err) {
console.log("Book not found", err);
}
Setting a timeout
import Isbn from "@library-pals/isbn";
try {
const isbn = new Isbn();
const book = await isbn.resolve("9780374104092", { timeout: 15000 });
console.log("Book found %j", book);
} catch (err) {
console.log("Book not found", err);
}
Response
Response follows the same schema, but some fields could depend on the service that was used to find the book. In general, Google Books API returns more information.
Response: Google
{
"title": "Annihilation",
"authors": ["Jeff VanderMeer"],
"description": "Area X has claimed the lives of members of eleven expeditions. The twelfth expedition consisting of four women hopes to map the terrain and collect specimens; to record all their observations, scientific and otherwise, of their surroundings and of one another; and, above all, to avoid being contaminated by Area X itself.",
"pageCount": 209,
"format": "book",
"categories": [
"Fiction",
"Fiction / General",
"Fiction / Fantasy / General",
"Fiction / Horror",
"Fiction / Literary",
"Fiction / Science Fiction / General",
"Fiction / Science Fiction / Action & Adventure",
"Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense",
"Fiction / Dystopian"
],
"thumbnail": "http://books.google.com/books/publisher/content?id=2cl7AgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=6&edge=curl&source=gbs_api",
"link": "https://books.google.com/books/about/Annihilation.html?hl=&id=2cl7AgAAQBAJ",
"publisher": "Macmillan",
"publishedDate": "2014-02-04",
"language": "en",
"isbn": "9780374104092",
"bookProvider": "Google Books"
}
Response: OpenLibrary
{
"title": "Annihilation",
"authors": ["Jeff VanderMeer"],
"description": "Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. The twelfth expedition arrives expecting the unexpected, and Area X delivers. They discover a massive topographic anomaly and life-forms that surpass understanding. But it's the surprises that came across the border with them, and the secrets the expedition members are keeping from one another that change everything.",
"pageCount": 208,
"format": "book",
"categories": [
"Nebula Award Winner",
"award:nebula_award=novel",
"award:nebula_award=2015",
"Discoveries in geography",
"Fiction",
"Scientists",
"Science-Fiction",
"Suspense fiction",
"Paranormal fiction",
"Women scientists",
"Science fiction",
"Fantasy fiction",
"Mystery fiction",
"Adventure fiction",
"Exploration",
"Amerikanisches Englisch",
"Fiction, science fiction, action & adventure",
"Fiction, suspense",
"Action & Adventure",
"Dystopian",
"Fantasy",
"Extrasensory perception",
"Literary",
"Suspense",
"Thrillers",
"General",
"Pollution",
"horror",
"body horror",
"alien invasion",
"nyt:trade-fiction-paperback=2018-03-18",
"New York Times bestseller",
"Explorers",
"Secrecy",
"Scientific expeditions",
"Psychic ability",
"Fiction, thrillers, suspense",
"Discoveries in geography--fiction",
"Scientists--fiction",
"Women scientists--fiction",
"Ps3572.a4284 a84 2014",
"813/.54"
],
"thumbnail": "https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/10520611-L.jpg",
"link": "https://openlibrary.org/books/OL31444108M",
"publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux",
"publishedDate": "2014",
"language": "en",
"isbn": "9780374104092",
"bookProvider": "Open Library"
}
Setting backend providers
You can optionally specify the providers that you want to use, in the order you need them to be invoked.
import Isbn from "@library-pals/isbn";
try {
const isbn = new Isbn();
// This request will search first in the Open Library API and then in the Google Books API
isbn.provider(["openlibrary", "google"]);
const book = await isbn.resolve("9780374104092");
console.log("Book isbn:" + input + " found %j", book);
} catch (err) {
console.log("Book isbn:" + input + " not found", err);
}
import Isbn from "@library-pals/isbn";
try {
const isbn = new Isbn();
// This request will search ONLY in the Google Books API
isbn.provider( "google"]);
const book = await isbn.resolve("9780374104092");
console.log("Book isbn:" + input + " found %j", book);
} catch (err) {
console.log("Book isbn:" + input + " not found", err);
}
If you do not like using strings to specify the providers, you could grab the
providers from isbn.PROVIDER_NAMES
constant that the library provides!
import Isbn from "@library-pals/isbn";
try {
const isbn = new Isbn();
// This request will search ONLY in the Google Books API
isbn.provider([isbn.PROVIDER_NAMES.GOOGLE]);
const book = await isbn.resolve("9780374104092");
console.log("Book isbn:" + input + " found %j", book);
} catch (err) {
console.log("Book isbn:" + input + " not found", err);
}
License
AGPL v3.0 LICENSE http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html
See also Google Books API Terms of Service, Open Library Licensing