Direct support for ISBN-13 for cover images.

[charabaruk]

Now that ISBNs are being issues with GS1 prefix 979, we can no longer rely on conversion to ISBN-10 for books issued with an ISBN-13. We should look into whether Amazon and Open Library can be queried for cover images using ISBN-13 and update the application to support this.

[charabaruk]

I have a draft PR #406 that provides support for Open Library, but it looks like there's no simple way to do it for Amazon. As far as I can tell, using an ISBN-13 doesn't work like using an ISBN-10 or ASIN does for getting a cover image from Amazon.

[meteos77]

Can you update the script : Scripts/biblioteq-download-images-sqlite.sh for books beginning with 979?

I haven't been able to do it myself :-(

Thanks in advance.

[textbrowser]

How?

[meteos77]

Sorry, I'm the requester, not the developer :-)
I have the impression that the Amazon site does not transmit the image with isbn13.

I'm another program that manages collections... I don't know the Perl language, so it's hard to say how they do it.
I have the impression that gcstar retrieves the entire page and extracts the information it wants.

gcstar.mp4

https://gitlab.com/GCstar/GCstar

Does this method inspire you?

[textbrowser]

No. The scripts don't have graphical interfaces.

[textbrowser]

You need to find the links for longer ISBNs for Amazon and Open Library. This is your request so you need to do some homework.

[textbrowser]

I tried a 13-digit ISBN for Amazon. It's probably somewhere. If you know it, the scripts will be improved because we can also extract the longer ISBN from the database.

[meteos77]

test for isbn13: 9791035804657
The URL provides access to the book's details: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=9791035804657

The URL for the image link is, in principle, unmanageable.
https://www.amazon.com/Histoire-1re-Collectif/dp/B07QBXLVND/ref=sr_1_1?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.0pQG9vfoAZn-c-pc0DVZxw.bwzLBjJgUnrMg4iI_zvf5gsULN88YLzXKbHWEYz_FqU&dib_tag=se&keywords=9791035804657&qid=1762449114&sr=8-1

If I look at the details of the book, the image has a link type:
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51azQ5uQX3L._SX342_SY445_ML2_.jpg

[textbrowser]

Yeah, that ain't going to help. Can't link 81SqGqSXcWL to the ISBN.

[meteos77]

I found an intermediary that provides the image URL:

project: https://github.com/w3slley/bookcover-api

curl -X GET "https://bookcover.longitood.com/bookcover/979-1035804657"
{"url":"https://m.media-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1678881427i/97579560.jpg"}

[textbrowser]

Yeah, not adding CURL into BQ.

[meteos77]

bash script

[textbrowser]

Need specifics. Like for ISBN, curl this. Those are two fetches for a single image.