goodreads

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Description

This gem allows you to easily access publicly available data from Goodreads.

Features

goodreads currently features the following:

  • Querying details of a specified book

In a nutshell

b = Goodreads::Book.new('9780375403170')

b.title
#=> "Les Misérables"
b.characters
#=> ["Jean Valjean", "Javert", "Cosette", "Fantine", "Bishop Myriel"]
b.cover
#=> "http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1320406739l/24284.jpg"

Installation

$ gem install goodreads-wrapper

Future features

The following features are considered next steps:

  • Search by title or author
  • Expose more details about genres, characters, authors
  • Expose editions
  • Expose 'similar items'

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2013 Tiago Luchini

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the 'Software'), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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