maforget / ComicRack_AmazonScrapper

Amazon Scrapper plugin to be uses with ComicRack
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You should consider using ComicRack Community Edition. And if you can please contribute to the project.

Amazon Scrapper for ComicRack

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This plugin uses the Amazon (formally Comixology) search to scrape data from Amazon pages and adds them to the metadata in ComicRack.

This isn't meant to be use as a replacement for the ComicVine Scrapper, which is miles ahead of this. First the data on Amazon isn't as detailed and this doesn't use any API, it just scrapes the pages. Its main use is primarily to get some info for those releases that aren't yet available on ComicVine.

Also, heavy use of this tool could probably mean that Amazon will block you or ask for if you aren't a robot, so use with moderation. To prevent blocking (I had it happen only once in developing this), the program will use a random user agent. So use it on a couple of books, not your library of thousands.

The interface is reminiscent of the ComicVine Scrapper, so you should be able to use without too much efforts. The only difference between the former are as follow:

Normally ComicRack plugins uses IronPython (a mixture of Python & .NET Framework). This is now obsolete and very hard to develop & debug for, so this plugin is made from scratch completely with the .NET Framework. The only python code is to call the .NET Code (1 line). So technically you could use the included executable directly, it will work on its own, but you will only be able to search and not add any metadata to any books.

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