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A Script that can make a list of all the books writen by an author/list of authors. Details regarding the publisher, year of publishing, ISBN Number(13 or 10 depending on availability) would be scraped off the Google Books database and presented as a text file. Made as an effort to help IIIT library purchase books for particular authors.

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This is a simple script that can be used to get the list of all the books written by an Author/List of Authors. The output file created will contain the list of all the books written by the authors matching the input string you provide. Details about the book such as the Title of the book, Author's full name, Publisher's Name, Date of Publication and ISBN Number (ISBN 13 if available, else ISBN 10) would be scraped off Google Books database and made available as a txt file.

To tun the script, simply execute the python file. If you have a list of authors in a txt file, enter the path of the file as input.

Made as an attempt to help IIIT Library Purchase some literature related books of Nobel Prize Laureates. (names.txt contains the list from 1901 to 2021)

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A Script that can make a list of all the books writen by an author/list of authors. Details regarding the publisher, year of publishing, ISBN Number(13 or 10 depending on availability) would be scraped off the Google Books database and presented as a text file. Made as an effort to help IIIT library purchase books for particular authors.

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