User:Doxcat/resolve isbn

if u happen to have a barcode scanner, u can use it to scan barcodes, rite?

well this script will resolve an ISBN into something less... number string-y change the key if u have a problem with it or whatever

sauwse:

import urllib2
import urllib
from xml.dom import minidom
from string import strip
import locale

class Main:
        key = "QT43XILR"
        def __main__(self):
                while True:
                        input = raw_input("ISBN: ")
                        success = self.handle(input)
                        if success is None:
                                print "Not found: "+input
                                continue
                        else:
                                print input+" found. Data follows.\n"
                                for k,v in success.iteritems():
                                        print k,":",v


        def handle(self,input):
                        req = urllib2.Request("http://isbndb.com/api/books.xml?access_key="+self.key+"&index1=isbn&value1="+input);
                        f = urllib2.urlopen(req);
                        xml = f.read().replace('\n','')
                        data = minidom.parseString(xml)
                        BookList = data.getElementsByTagName("BookList")[0]
                        if BookList.attributes["total_results"].value == u'0':
                                return None
                        Title = data.getElementsByTagName("Title")[0].firstChild.data
                        if data.getElementsByTagName("TitleLong")[0].firstChild is None:
                                LongTitle=""
                        else:
                                LongTitle=data.getElementsByTagName("TitleLong")[0].firstChild.data;
                        if data.getElementsByTagName("AuthorText") == [] or data.getElementsByTagName("AuthorText")[0].firstChild is None:
                                Author=""
                        else:
                                Author = data.getElementsByTagName("AuthorText")[0].firstChild.data
                        if data.getElementsByTagName("PublisherText")[0].firstChild is None:
                                Publisher=""
                        else:
                                Publisher = data.getElementsByTagName("PublisherText")[0].firstChild.data
                        return {"Author":Author,"Title":Title,"LongTitle":LongTitle,"Publisher":Publisher};
                        return True;




if __name__ == "__main__":
        main = Main();
        main.__main__();