packbackbooks/textbook-prices

Making it simple to integrate your application with textbook price apis.

Packback Textbook Price Client

, _(*1)

This public project is designed to make getting used, new, and rental book prices from the most common textbook sellers easy. The following clients can be accessed with this project:, _(*2)

• AbeBooks
• Amazon
• BookRenter (via CommissionJunction)
• Cengage (via CommissionJunction)
• Chegg
• Skyo (via CommissionJunction)
• ValoreBooks

Getting prices from a provider

All clients extend the abstract PriceClient class. As an example, get prices from Abe Books for a group of ISBNs is done as follows:, _(*3)

$isbns = [
    // ISBNS
];
$abeBooks = new AbeBooksPriceClient([
    'access_key' => <ABEBOOKS ACCESS KEY>
]);

$prices = $abeBooks->getPricesForIsbns($isbns);

Including in your project

Add the following to your composer.json file:, _(*4)

"require": {
        "packbackbooks/textbook-prices": "~0.1.4"
}

You must also have "minimum-stability": "dev" in your composer.json file so that Composer can fetch dev-master versions of packages., _(*5)

Notes

This package is compliant with PSR-1, PSR-2 and PSR-4. If you notice compliance oversights, please send a patch via pull request., _(*6)