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ldolse · 06-22-2009, 05:36 AM

If it grabbed the full size cover I often find the amazon covers are higher resolution than the library thing covers. A lot of books have a summary or review when none is present in isbndb.

I just tried that URL and saw it was the normal product page, not some easily parsed data structure, so agree outside of possibly covers it's probably not worth the effort to write a scraper.

Just a note with covers, they dynamically modify a source cover image with a bunch of arguments. So while the thumbnail of a cover one scrapes would look like this:

Code:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41DcKN0STkL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA240_SH20_OU01_.jpg

The full resolution image url is gotten by deleting the junk between the first '.' and the '.jpg':

Code:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41DcKN0STkL.jpg

Amazon also might be more reliable for covers than library thing, not only does librarything often have low-res, but it's also always timing out on me.

06-22-2009, 05:36 AM	#5
ldolse Wizard Posts: 1,337 Karma: 123455 Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Malaysia Device: PRS-650, iPhone	If it grabbed the full size cover I often find the amazon covers are higher resolution than the library thing covers. A lot of books have a summary or review when none is present in isbndb. I just tried that URL and saw it was the normal product page, not some easily parsed data structure, so agree outside of possibly covers it's probably not worth the effort to write a scraper. Just a note with covers, they dynamically modify a source cover image with a bunch of arguments. So while the thumbnail of a cover one scrapes would look like this: Code: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41DcKN0STkL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA240_SH20_OU01_.jpg The full resolution image url is gotten by deleting the junk between the first '.' and the '.jpg': Code: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41DcKN0STkL.jpg Amazon also might be more reliable for covers than library thing, not only does librarything often have low-res, but it's also always timing out on me.