def _getAuthorCategory(self, author):
"""
:param author: author
Since ISBNdb does not provide author info
"""
category_set = []
from goodReadsApiParser import goodReadsApiParser as gr
import itertools
gr_instance = gr(self.GrKey)
author_id = str(gr_instance.getAuthorId(author)) #get the gr id
xml = gr_instance.connectToGoodreads("http://www.goodreads.com/author/list/"+author_id+".xml")#paginate the author's books
#get the isbn of the first book returnedl ex, for the shining it's 0450040186
tree = ET.fromstring(xml)
categories = [category for category in tree.getiterator("isbn")]
isbns= [i.text for i in categories]
#return a list of isbns
for i in isbns[:5]:
for returned_genre in self._getTitleCategory(isbn = i):
category_set.append(returned_genre.title())
continue #don't break on a returned value of None
#category_set = set(category_set)
return category_set
def getISBN(self,title):
"""
:param: book title
Given a book title, call the Goodreads parser and get the ISBN
of the top-ranked result. Goodreads will tolerate keyword searches
for titles.
"""
from goodReadsApiParser import goodReadsApiParser as gr
gr_instance = gr(self.GrKey)
return str(gr_instance.getISBN(title))
def getBookAuthor(self, title):
"""
:param title: title
Given a book title, returns the author of that book
using the getAuthor() method of goodReadsApiParser.py
"""
from goodReadsApiParser import goodReadsApiParser as gr
gr_instance = gr(self.GrKey)
return str(gr_instance.getAuthor(title))