NAME

WWW::Scraper::ISBN::AmazonUS_Driver - Search driver for the (US) Amazon online catalog.

SYNOPSIS

See parent class documentation (WWW::Scraper::ISBN::Driver)

DESCRIPTION

Searches for book information from the (US) Amazon online catalog.

METHODS

search()

Creates a query string, then passes the appropriate form fields to the Amazon (US) server.

The returned page should be the correct catalog page for that ISBN. If not the function returns zero and allows the next driver in the chain to have a go. If a valid page is returned, the following fields are returned via the book hash:

isbn
author
title
book_link
thumb_link
image_link
pubdate
publisher

The book_link, thumb_link and image_link refer back to the Amazon (US) website.

REQUIRES

Requires the following modules be installed:

WWW::Scraper::ISBN::Driver, WWW::Mechanize, Template::Extract

SEE ALSO

WWW::Scraper::ISBN, WWW::Scraper::ISBN::Record, WWW::Scraper::ISBN::Driver

AUTHOR

Barbie, <barbie@cpan.org>
for Miss Barbell Productions <http://www.missbarbell.co.uk>.

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2004-2007 Barbie for Miss Barbell Productions

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

The full text of the licenses can be found in the Artistic file included with this module, or in perlartistic as part of Perl installation, in the 5.8.1 release or later.