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Kan is book search utility so you spend less time searching and more time reading.

Installation

Install from PyPi

$ pip install kan

From Source

To get the latest version to try out, clone the github repo.

$ git clone https://github.com/jjangsangy/kan.git

Use setup.py to install

# For Python 2.x Install
$ python setup.py install

# For Python 3.x
$ python3 setup.py install

Usage

# Print Out Help Instructions
$ kan -h

Usage: kan [-h] [-v] [--title name] [--author name] [--max n]
           [--subject topic] [--language code]
           {title,isbn,author} ...

Kan helps you find the book

positional arguments:
  {title,isbn,author}  Search by
    title              Book title
    isbn               ISBN code
    author             Book author

optional arguments:
  -h, --help           show this help message and exit
  -v, --version        show program's version number and exit
  --title name         Title of the book
  --author name        Name of the author
  --max n              Maximum results to get per query: default=10, max=40
  --subject topic      Specify subject matter by category
  --language code      Restrict the search results to those with a certain
                       language code

Simplest way is to search for book by title. By default, you’ll get the top 3 matches.

$ kan title 'Fifty Shades'

Title: Fifty Shades of Grey
Author: E L James
ISBN_13: 9781448149452

Title: Fifty Shades Darker
Author: E. L. James
ISBN_10: 0385537689

Title: Fifty Shades Freed
Author: E L James
ISBN: N/A

Search more generally and tweak your search parameters.

$ kan --language ko --max 5 author 'J. K. Rowling' --top

Title: 해리포터와마법사의돌
Author: J. K. Rowling, 김혜원
OTHER: OCLC:226262132

Title: 해리포터와혼혈왕자
Author: J. K. Rowling, 최인자
OTHER: OCLC:226262119

Title: 해리포터와비밀의방
Author: J. K. Rowling, 김혜원
OTHER: OCLC:226262164

Title: 해리포터와불의잔
Author: 조앤 K. 롤링, 김혜원
ISBN_10: 8983920955

Title: 해리포터와죽음의성물
Author: J. K. Rowling, 최인자
ISBN_10: 898392067X

Release History

0.0.2

Bug fixes and speed improvements. More compact interface
Book models update
Completed Backend API for Google Books
Added verbose flag

0.0.1

Bug Fixes
Improved loadtime by applying fieldstring parameter at url creation.
Added Subparser
Allow search using ISBN

0.0.0

Initial registration and release on pypi
Built command line parser
Basic Client Interface and Implementation for Google Books
Added support for optional search arguments

Release files for kan 0.0.2

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Source distribution (sdist)

Source distribution for kan 0.0.2
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