Module: LibgenApi

Defined in:
lib/libgen_api.rb,
lib/libgen_api/version.rb

Defined Under Namespace

Classes: Error

Constant Summary collapse

VERSION = 
"0.1.2"

Class Method Summary collapse

Class Method Details

.change_mirror(new_mirror) ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/libgen_api.rb', line 44

def self.change_mirror(new_mirror)
    @mirror = new_mirror
end

.get_book(id, fields = ["Title", "Author", "MD5"]) ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/libgen_api.rb', line 76

def self.get_book(id, fields=["Title", "Author", "MD5"])
    fields = fields.join(',')

    res = HTTParty.get("http://#{@mirror}/json.php?ids=#{id}&fields=#{fields}")

    begin
        JSON.parse(res.body)[0]
    rescue JSON::ParserError, TypeError => e
        raise "An error has occured when parsing the JSON recieved. The error is:\n#{e}"
    end
end

.get_books(ids, fields = ["Title", "Author", "MD5"]) ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/libgen_api.rb', line 88

def self.get_books(ids, fields=["Title", "Author", "MD5"])
    ids = ids.map(&:to_s).join(',')
    fields = fields.join(',')

    res = HTTParty.get("http://#{@mirror}/json.php?ids=#{ids}&fields=#{fields}")

    begin
        JSON.parse(res.body)
    rescue JSON::ParserError, TypeError => e
        raise "An error has occured when parsing the JSON recieved. The error is:\n#{e}"
    end
end

.get_ids(page) ⇒ Object

Results are in the same order as search results.



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# File 'lib/libgen_api.rb', line 14

def self.get_ids(page)
    books = []

    table = page.search('table')[2]
    table.search('tbody').each do |tb|
        tb.search('tr').each do |tr|

            # Here we check to see if the name of th current text element is "ID:"
            # and then move onto to the next element in the loop which contains the id.
            found_id = false
            tr.search('td').each do |td|
                if found_id
                    books.push(td.text)
                    break
                end

                if td.text == "ID:"
                    found_id = true
                end
            end
        end
    end

    books
end

.get_mirror ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/libgen_api.rb', line 40

def self.get_mirror
    @mirror
end

.search(query, res, column) ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/libgen_api.rb', line 48

def self.search(query, res, column)
    raise "query must be at least four characters long!" if query.length() < 4

    if res != 25 && res != 50 && res != 100
        raise "res must equal either 25, 50 or 100"
    end
    
    id_collection = []
    page = 1
    loop do
        url = "http://#{@mirror}/search.php?req=#{query}&lg_topic=libgen&open=0&view=detailed&res=#{res}&column=#{column}&page=#{page}"
        response = HTTParty.get(url)

        doc = Nokogiri::HTML(response.body)
        page_ids = get_ids(doc)

        id_collection = id_collection + page_ids

        if page_ids.length() != res
            break
        end

        page += 1
    end

    id_collection
end