My book searching function (libgen, no api)

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My book searching function (libgen, no api) - sunjester - 01-09-2019

Code:
function __booksearch
{
        bs=urlencode "${1}" &> /dev/null
        curl -s "http://libgen.io/search.php?req="$bs"&lg_topic=libgen&open=0&view=simple&res=999&phrase=1&column=def" >books
        id=$(grep -Eio "id[=][0-9]{7}>(.+?)" books|cut -d '=' -f 2|cut -d '>' -f 1)
        title=$(grep -Eio "id[=][0-9]{7}>(.+?)" books|cut -d '>' -f 2|cut -d '<' -f 1)
        rm books
        echo "[$id] $title"
}
alias booksearch='__booksearch'

usage:

Code:
(xenial)root@localhost:~/# booksearch "red team field manual"
[1160277] Rtfm: Red Team Field Manual

pastebin link: https://pastebin.com/raw/mgkA5hxK

may also need this function

Code:
#https://stackoverflow.com/questions/296536/how-to-urlencode-data-for-curl-command
urlencode() {
    local data
    if [[ $# != 1 ]]; then
        echo "Usage: $0 string-to-urlencode"
        return 1
    fi
    data="$(curl -s -o /dev/null -w %{url_effective} --get --data-urlencode "$1" "")"
    if [[ $? != 3 ]]; then
        echo "Unexpected error" 1>&2
        return 2
    fi
    echo "${data##/?}"
    return 0
}

RE: My book searching function (libgen, no api) - kyda - 02-12-2019

This is amazing! Nice coding! Found what I need. Thanks!

RE: My book searching function (libgen, no api) - mothered - 02-12-2019

You contribute some very beneficial pieces of coding, and this certainly Is no exception.

Well done.