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isbnlib is a (pure) python library that provides several useful methods and functions to validate, clean, transform, hyphenate and get metadata for ISBN strings. Its origin was as the core of isbntools.

This short version, is suitable to be include as a dependency in other projects. Has a straightforward setup and a very easy programmatic api.

Runs on py27, py35, py36 and py37.

Usage

Typical usage (as library):

import isbnlib

...

Just for fun, suppose I want the most spoken about book with certain words in his title. For a quick-and-dirty solution, enter the following code in a file and save it as isbn_tmsa_book.py.

#!/usr/bin/env python
import sys
from isbnlib import *

query = sys.argv[1].replace(" ", "+")
isbn = isbn_from_words(query)

print("The ISBN of the most `spoken-about` book with this title is %s" % isbn)
print("")
print("... and the book is:")
print("")
print((meta(isbn)))

Then in a command line (in the same directory):

$ python isbn_tmsa_book.py 'noise'

In my case I get:

The ISBN of the most `spoken-about` book with this title is 9780143105985

... and the book is:

{'Publisher': u'Penguin Books', 'Language': u'eng', 'Title': u'White noise',
'Year': u'2009', 'ISBN-13': u'9780143105985', 'Authors': u'Don DeLillo ;
introduction by Richard Powers.'}

Have fun!