pyBookSearch

A simple terminal or GTK+ based interface to add books to a library file.

Designed to aid entry of books by scanning or typing in their ISBN or LCCN. A web search then looks up details and the results (including the ISBN, Title, and Author) are added to a CSV file.

Books may also be added manually in the GTK interface.

The interface is optimised for efficient repeated book entry:

• pick up book
• scan ISBN
• put down book
• repeat

Some ancilliary routines for post-processing are also included.

The main program is called my_library.py, use the --help option to get current command line options. At this time the two main options are:

• -l FILE or --library=FILE Specify the file to use for the CSV output.
• -t or --text Use text mode (not the GTK interface)
• -d DELIMITER or --delimit=DELIMITER Specify the delimiter to use in the CSV file (default: |)
• -f or --fill Fill all book fields from as many sources as is needed
• -r or --requery Not yet implemented. Re-query all books in the library
• -n or --no-questions Don't ask any questions, useful for redirected input

Dependencies

• bs4 (BeautifulSoup, SoupStrainer)
• (optional) gi.repository (Gtk, GObject)
• (optional) fuzzywuzzy
• various stuff from the standard library