https://github.com/talonx/book-search

A Ruby script to search for a particular book across multiple online bookstores
https://github.com/talonx/book-search

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A Ruby script to search for a particular book across multiple online bookstores

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/talonx/book-search
• Owner: talonx
• Created: 2009-12-10T16:59:35.000Z (over 15 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2010-04-03T17:12:03.000Z (about 15 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-12-27T02:25:12.802Z (6 months ago)
• Language: Ruby
• Homepage: http://code.deepinspace.net
• Size: 105 KB
• Stars: 2
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README

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= Book-Search - Search online bookstores

== An Overview

Book-Search is a ruby script to search multiple online bookstores in India. The original aim of this project was to find

the lowest price among all the stores. The current script just displays the results with prices and links to the sites.

Price-based listing is on the way!

== Supported sites

* Bookadda.com

* Infibeam.com

* Flipkart.com

* TheStorez.com

* Indiaplaza.in

== Dependencies

Book-search uses the Hpricot HTML parser. http://github.com/whymirror/hpricot

The script uses screen scraping - so it's totally dependent on the stores' site's search results page structure. It'll break if the latter changes.

== Immediate ToDos

* Price based rankings, with lowest on top.

* Split the code into separate modules, so that bookstores can be added and removed easily.