Cappy

Book search is a simple search tool for compiling results from many major book sellers online. It returns 10 results from each site and automatically sorts all results by price. Note that this tool is useful for finding rare, out of print books, but is pretty useless for searching books that are widely available. All currencies are automatically converted to USD for ease of use. Use any information you find at your own risk, I don’t guarantee anything.

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Recent Changes:

• Added AbeBooks and eBay API
• Added alert when a search returns 0 results
• Changed default search to Abebooks, because I like them more and their prices are better.

Current supported sites:

• AbeBooks.com
• Amazon.com (United States)
• Amazon.ca (Canada)
• Amazon.de (Germany)
• Amazon.fr (France)
• Amazon.co.jp (Japan)
• Amazon.co.uk (United Kingdom)
• eBay
• Half.com

Upcoming changes:

Add API for Alibris
Add more search options (author, title, etc)
Add multiple currency conversions
Add book cover image
Add option for removing results
Created “loading” animation for calls
Create lean, stable version for downloading

Requirements:

• PHP 5 or higher
• The jQuery javascript library

Comments:

My main task right now is to make the search as lean as possible, keeping the code class-based and clean so that it will run as smoothly as possible as new APIs are added. Currently new results rely on Javascript to create AJAX calls, but I’d like to make a straight server-side iteration that is then built onto with enhancements.

Also, the Half.com API sucks and I may just remove it altogether. You can’t get any details or prices on products without doing some very time consuming calls.

Amazon Germany does not return prices… also bothersome.

Suggestions:

Make em here.