Book Finder
A gem to find books on libgen and b-ok sites
Installation
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem 'book_finder'And then execute:
bundle
Or install it yourself as:
gem install book_finder
Examples
require 'book_finder'
from_libgen = BookFinder.search(api: 'libgen', params: { query: 'ruby' })
from_bok = BookFinder.search(api: 'bok', params: { query: 'ruby' })
from_both = BookFinder.search(params: { query: 'ruby' })
from_libgen_by_author = BookFinder.search(api: 'libgen', params: { query: 'elixir', by: 'author'})
from_libgen_order_by_author_desc = BookFinder.search(api: 'libgn', params: { query: 'elixir', ordered_by: 'author', order_mode: 'DESC' })Specific APIs
require 'book_finder'
only_libgen = BookFinder::Libgen.new
only_from_libgen = only_libgen.search(query: 'ruby')
only_bok = BookFinder::Bok.new
only_from_bok = only_bok.search(query: 'ruby') Docs
BookFinder
#search
api
Api where to fetch from
- libgen
- bok
- nil (both)
params
Params and filters for the result
| key | Description | Values | Default | Necessary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| query | Input given to the apis to look for the books | String | "" | true |
| by | Column in which the api will search | String | "" | false |
| ordered_by | Column in which the result will be ordered | String | "" | false |
| order_mode | Either ascendent or descendent | ASC, DESC | "" | false |
| page | Page number of the result to bring | Number | 1 | false |
| language | Language of the books listed | String | "" | false |
| from | From which date to start searching | Date | "" | false |
| to | Which date to end searching | Date | "" | false |
Which data is returned?
| key | Data |
|---|---|
| authors | { "author's name" => "link_to_author" } |
| title | "Book title" |
| publisher | "Book publisher" |
| year | 1930 |
| pages | 225 |
| language | "English" |
| File size | "26 mb" |
| extension | "pdf" |
| mirrors | ["mirror1", "mirror2", "mirrorn"] |