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( "user@example.com", "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.