A very quickly hacked together tool to search bookfinder.com for a whole file worth of books rather than just one at a time. Why? Because this semester I have a ridiculous number of books to buy and copy-pasting gets boring.
bookfinder-multisearch is working as of 3.8.5. It requires:
- Python >=3.8.5
- Requests
- lxml
- argparse
- Possibly some assembly; your mileage may vary.
These can be installed quickly with:
pip install -r requirements.txt
Lay out your list like this:
Book Title And Whatever Relevant Keywords
Jurassic Park 1990 Crichton
Book Title Three: Improved Search Edition
etc.
Then, run:
python bookfinder.py <path_to_file_with_list_of_books> <output_file>
Voila. Every once-in-a-while the script will fail because bookfinder.com did something funky. Try re-running the script before pronouncing it broken.
(If re-running the script AND double-checking your version of python doesn't fix your problem, submit an issue!)