From 45a96ef428c9808abcc6d4043f149eb6ac825ece Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nick White Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 17:12:30 +0100 Subject: Add notes for how to get pages from amazon and barnes and noble --- plans/bnbook | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+) create mode 100644 plans/bnbook (limited to 'plans/bnbook') 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 -- cgit v1.2.3