eyrolles-api v0.0.2

EyrollesJS

This is an unofficial JS API for Eyrolles’ website.

in development

Usage

The API has some objects (e.g. Book, Publisher, etc), each one has a .fetch method, used to populate its attributes with the informations from the website.

Each API’s function get an object with various attributes:

• query: the query string
• limit: the maximum number of results (e.g. for a search), default is 20
• offset: see limit (default: 0)
• callback: a function called with the result(s)
• error: a function called if there’s an error

Search

var api = require( 'eyrolles-api' );

api.search({
    query: 'Foo',
    callback: function( q ) {

        console.log( q.results ); // `Book` objects

    }

});

Get a Book

• with its ISBN code: api.getBookByISBN( opts ), put the code in the query attribute of the opts object. This return a Book object.

Get all books from a given author

If you have an Author object, its books attributes is the list of their books (you have to fetch them with the .fetch methods).