gorbash1370 / humble-bundle-book-info

Automated retrieval of Humble Book Bundle information, outputted to txt file. Includes Amazon review ratings, ISBNs, ASINs, published date, retail prices and gathers useful URLs to explore the titles (i.e. Google Books previews & Amazon ebook page).

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About gorbash1370

Addiction | Learning

Style | Foundational knowledge. Learn-By-Do

Self-taught | Humble Book Bundles, ChatGPT, Copilot

Tech Podcasts | Security Now, Unsupervised Learning, Darknet Diaries

Interests | CyberSec, Networking, (the power of) Code, Automation, AI (especially art & general manipulation!)

Direction | Career switch into CyberSecurity, Networking & Network Security

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My Repos

Hobby-coding for only about 6 months at the start of 2024, my GitHub is a "Learning in Public" endeavour, hosting my practice projects. On the plus side, my code should be accessible for other learners and fairly simple to scrutinise!

If anyone happens to find my small scripts useful then

Hopefully over time my work will attest to an increase in sophistication!

Projects

whisper-wrapper | A simple but feature-rich implementation of OpenAI's Whisper transcription model. My first published coding project!

rename-packt-vids | Simple, niche script that renames Packt course video files (format video1_1) according to their individual Series/Module and Episode titles. Feeds in nicely to whisper-wrapper.

humble-bundle-book-info | Script does a little web-scraping via Google Books API & Bing Search API to automate researching individual titles in Humble Book Bundles, just using the HB webpage url. All the gathered information is output to nicely formatted text files. See /HumbleBundleBooks for sample outputs.

security-now-files | Automated fetch of transcripts & shownotes for the fantastic Security Now podcast. Includes options for downloading just the latest episode, a specific range of episodes or the whole back-catalogue (in server-respectful fashion, of course!) and the ability to select target file formats (pdf, txt or htm).

More Coming Soon!

If you do happen to have reeeeeally enjoyed my work then what I would most appreciate is a pat on the back, but, Contributions to the Caffine Fund ☕ are always welcome too.

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Having benefited greatly from the generous sharing by others of their skills and output, I'm really passionate about the Open Source philosophy and hope to contribute meaningfully to the community.

This profile is deliberately explicit about my experience and stage in the learning journey: if anyone has a project I could work on, wants to collab or is interested in mentoring, please do reach out!

Feedback and constructive criticism on my work is always welcome.

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Last updated: 2024-02-13

humble-bundle-book-info's Issues

Bug caused by missing authors in selected books presented by Make (Electronics & Design) bundle 24 05 01

Electronics and Design for Entrepreneurs, Tech Book Bundle by Make presented an issue for the code whereby only 12 book entries were being returned for a Bundle of 15 - no error messages produced by the code.

Upon further investigation, the sychronisation of authors to the title-blurbs was also being mismatched for some books.

Inspection of the Selenium retrieved html/js and the webpage direct, revealed that 3 books provided no Author: field or value (only Publisher: Make).

The original code assumed that all books will have Title - Author - Blurb.
The assumption wasn't unreasonable on the experience of c20 bundles processed without issue, but now presents a flaw.
The code parses the retrieved strings that represent the Title - Author - Blurb fields positionally into the dictionary that orchestrates the API calls, and creates the text files for output.

Therefore, when any field is missing from a single book entry it will mess up the correct matching between the three fields across the individual books in the bundle.

Missing fields therefore present a fatal flaw that contaminate the book information retrieval at the API call stage.

An immediate fix requires identifying and handling (probably via placeholder substitution) instances where an Author field is totally absent for a book. May later have to extend this fallback capability to Title (very unlikely) and Blurb fields too.