Google-book-shell NPM

Google Book Shell

Search Google Books from command line window.

Video of "How to Install & Use Google-Book-Shell"

How to Install

npm install -g google-book-shell

If you have already installed it before (Thank you 😇), update it as shown below.

npm update -g google-book-shell

Link to Google-Book-Shell NPM page.

How to Run 🏃‍

Type gbs

dance2die@LELOUCH c:\misc\sources
> gbs
google book search$

Usage

Type help for the list of commands

google book search$ help

  Commands:

    help [command...]  Provides help for a given command.
    exit               Exits application.
    search <book>      search for a book in Google Books
    open <number>      open # in searched book list
    view <number>      view detailed description of the book
    print              print searched books

Commands

search

USAGE: search <book name> (book name is required).
ALIAS: s
DESCRIPTION: Searches for the book on Google Books.
If the name has a space, use a double/single quote around the name.

EXAMPLE

google book search$ search "Grokking Algorithms"
01: Grokking Algorithms
02: Grokking Deep Learning
03: Algorithms For Dummies
04: Algorithms Unlocked
05: Data Structures and Algorithms in Python
06: Essential Algorithms
07: The Algorithm Design Manual
08: The CS Detective
09: Algorithmic Puzzles
10: Python Algorithms

open

USAGE: open [options] <number> (number is required).
ALIAS: o
DESCRIPTION: Opens the searched book by the search result order in a web browser.
NOTE: Works only after search is run.

OPTIONS:

Options:
    --help                        output usage information
    -a, --amazon                  open Amazon link
    -s, --strip-amazon-affiliate  strip affiliate query parameter

--amazon (or -a for short): Opens Amazon Web Link with affiliate info
- Amazon's Product API requires a developer to sign up as an affiliate so this was unavoidable.
- So I added the following option (-s) to strip out affiliate info if you choose to do so
- This flag calls an Azure Function, which needs to wake up after some inactivity (Takes about 10~30 seconds). It will work faster after the first call.
--strip-amazon-affiliate (or -s for short): Strip out affiliate info (Please support me by not using this flag 👼)
e.g.)
- open 1
- open -a 1 (or open --amazon 1)
- open -a -s 1 (or open --amazon --strip-amazon-affiliate 1)
- YouTube walk-through

view

USAGE: view [number] (number is optional).
ALIAS: v
DESCRIPTION: Displays the description of the searched book in console by search result order.
When [number] argument is missing, it will let user choose a book to view detail for
NOTE: Works only after search is run.
EXAMPLE with [number] argument.
EXAMPLE withOUT [number] argument.

print

USAGE: print
ALIAS: p
DESCRIPTION: Reprints searched book result
Note: Displays nothing when no search was performed previously.

EXAMPLE

google book search$ print                    
01: Grokking Algorithms                      
02: Grokking Deep Learning                   
03: Algorithms For Dummies                   
04: Algorithms Unlocked                      
05: Data Structures and Algorithms in Python 
06: Essential Algorithms                     
07: The Algorithm Design Manual              
08: The CS Detective                         
09: Algorithmic Puzzles                      
10: Python Algorithms

Demo using Aliases only

You can search, view details, and open browser much faster with aliases.

How to‍ 🏃‍ from the Source

Clone the source: git clone https://github.com/dance2die/google-book-shell.git
Install NPM packages/dependencies npm install or yarn
Run it using npm or yarn