Thriftbooks API

This API is a wrapper around thriftbooks.com that allows developers to programmatically read and update thriftbooks.com account infromation, place orders, and browse the avai- lable selection of books.

Quickstart

Explanation: Create two lists to build your interaction with thriftbooks. The first list is a function list, the second list is http request objects. Then pass these two lists to the runChains( ... ) function. The results will be saved to file.

	var thriftbooks = require("../thriftbooksapi.js");
	
	var thriftbooks = require("../thriftbooksapi.js");
	var thriftbooksObject = new thriftbooks();
	/*
		Lists of thriftbooks functions and their corresponding
		requests that will be executed.
	*/
	var functionChain = new Array();
	var requestChain = new Array();
		
	// Set your username and password for thriftbooks.
	thriftbooksObject.setAccount( "[email protected]", "password" );
		
	// Create corresponding function and request chains. 
	functionChain.push(thriftbooksObject.accountInfo);
	requestChain.push(thriftbooksObject.accountInfoRequest);
		
	thriftbooksObject.runChains(functionChain, requestChain);

Functions

Name | Descriptions | Parameters
-------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------- setAccount | Sets the account information to be used. | user, pass
accountInfo | Fetches the account's info from thriftbooks. | cookieJar, requestData, callbackFuncs, callbackRequests addAddress | Add's an address to the thriftbooks account. | cookieJar, requestData, callbackFuncs, callbackRequests runChains | Runs a series of functions with their associated http requests. | functionChain, requestChain
login | Logs into the thriftbooks account. | requestData, callbackFuncs, callbackRequests

setAccount

[string] - user - The email address for the thriftbooks account.

[string] - pass - The password for the thriftbooks acccount.

accountInfo

[Object] - cookieJar - A JSON object that contains the cookies being used in requests.

[Object] - requestData - A JSON object that contains the requestData specific to our callback function.

[Array] - callbackFuncs - An Array of functions that will be called, in order. This is a function chain.

[Array] - callbackRequests - An Array of JSON objects that model HTTP Requests for mikeals/request module. Each of these callback requests corresponds to a function in callbackFuncs.

addAddress

[Object] - cookieJar - A JSON object that contains the cookies being used in requests.

[Object] - requestData - A JSON object that contains the requestData specific to our callback function.

[Array] - callbackFuncs - An Array of functions that will be called, in order. This is a function chain.

[Array] - callbackRequests - An Array of JSON objects that model HTTP Requests for mikeals/request module. Each of these callback requests corresponds to a function in callbackFuncs.

runChains

[Array] - callbackFuncs - An Array of functions that will be called, in order. This is a function chain.

[Array] - callbackRequests - An Array of JSON objects that model HTTP Requests for mikeals/request module. Each of these callback requests corresponds to a function in callbackFuncs.

login

[Object] - requestData - A JSON object that contains the requestData specific to our callback function.

[Array] - callbackFuncs - An Array of functions that will be called, in order. This is a function chain.

[Array] - callbackRequests - An Array of JSON objects that model HTTP Requests for mikeals/request module. Each of these callback requests corresponds to a function in callbackFuncs.

Requests

Name | Description -------------------|------------------------------------------------------- loginRequest | HTTP request for logging into thriftbooks.com accountInfoRequest | HTTP request for fetching account info webpage. addAddressRequest | HTTP request for fetching addresses webpage.
addToCartRequest | HTTP request for adding an item to the shopping cart.