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WWW-Search-ISBNDB (0.3)

First of all, the documentation of this module is difficult. The example doesn't work, it has ' in the wrong places, the "native_query" method used for searching isn't documented, and when you do get it to run it just prints out HASH(0x10239485) type of things.

Secondly, it doesn't seem to work properly - the results I got were nonsense, and I couldn't see what I was supposed to do from the documentation. I wanted to search by ISBN but it didn't make it clear how to do that.

In the end it was much easier to write the scraper "by hand" using LWP::Simple and the excellent API documentation of ISBNdb.com than using this module, so my advice is to forget it.

BKB - 2008-05-08 22:45:55
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