from ox.cache import read_url from ox import find_re, strip_tags import re base = 'http://www.lookupbyisbn.com' def get_data(isbn): r = {} url = '%s/Search/Book/%s/1' % (base, isbn) data = read_url(url).decode('utf-8') m = re.compile('href="(/Lookup/Book/[^"]+?)"').findall(data) if m: ids = m[0].split('/') r['isbn'] = ids[-2] r['asin'] = ids[-3] url = '%s%s' % (base, m[0]) data = read_url(url).decode('utf-8') r["title"] = find_re(data, "

(.*?)

") keys = { 'author': 'Author(s)', 'publisher': 'Publisher', 'date': 'Publication date', 'edition': 'Edition', 'binding': 'Binding', 'volume': 'Volume(s)', 'pages': 'Pages', } for key in keys: r[key] = find_re(data, '%s:(.*?)'% re.escape(keys[key])) if r[key] == '--': r[key] = '' if key == 'pages' and r[key]: r[key] = int(r[key]) desc = find_re(data, '

Description:<\/h2>(.*?)

', ' ').replace('
', ' ').replace('
', ' ') r['description'] = strip_tags(desc).strip() if r['description'] == u'Description of this item is not available at this time.': r['description'] = '' r['cover'] = find_re(data, '