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| author | Nick White <git@njw.me.uk> | 2011-09-08 17:12:30 +0100 |
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| committer | Nick White <git@njw.me.uk> | 2011-09-08 17:12:30 +0100 |
| commit | 45a96ef428c9808abcc6d4043f149eb6ac825ece (patch) | |
| tree | 1818f6bf3fbff21cea2fb2228a8a0f04cb55eac3 /plans/bnbook | |
| parent | 6caa822d0ad5afb0d019e1b2afbbc53847d7179d (diff) | |
Add notes for how to get pages from amazon and barnes and noble
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diff --git a/plans/bnbook b/plans/bnbook new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ea7200f --- /dev/null +++ b/plans/bnbook @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +barnes & noble have a 'book viewer'/'see +inside'. it is flash, which sucks. 'powered by zinio.com' + +http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Orange-Sunshine/Nicholas-Schou/e/9780312551834 + +it seems you're only 'allowed' to open the viewer 2 or 3 +times per book per ip. if not, you get plain html, but +seemingly only back & front covers: + +http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/imageviewer.asp?ean=9780312551834&imId=65316517 +http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/imageviewer.asp?ean=9780312551834&imId=65309649 + +the flash urls are of the form: +http://search2.barnesandnoble.com/BookViewer/?ean=9780061655944 + +which leads to xml: +http://search2.barnesandnoble.com/BookViewer/bookxml.asp?ean=9780061655944 +which leads to: +http://search2.barnesandnoble.com/DigBooks/viewer/bookviewmanager.aspx?op=getbookinfo&ean=9780061655944 +this is xml, which has paths of for different qualities (for +low quality, use tn rather than fp): +http://search2.barnesandnoble.com/digbooks/proxy/54/9780312361983/%d/fp +the %d can be replaced with the page number +requesting a page which isn't available +(freevendstatus="false") returns the standard book swf |