I was trying to use WWW::Scraper::ISBN to pull details like author and title of a book using it's ISBN.

The code example from modules documentation is throwing error on perl 5.28.1

#!~/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.28.1/bin/perl

use Modern::Perl '2019';
use WWW::Scraper::ISBN;

# instantiate the object
my $scraper = WWW::Scraper::ISBN->new();

# load the drivers.  requires that
# WWW::Scraper::ISBN::LOC_Driver and
# WWW::Scraper::ISBN::ISBNnu_Driver
# be installed
$scraper->drivers("LOC", "ISBNnu");

my @isbns = [ "9780134511184" ];

foreach my $num (@isbns) {
  $scraper->isbn($num);
  $scraper->search($scraper->isbn);
  if ($scraper->found) {
    my $b = $scraper->book;
    print "Title: ".$b->{'title'}."\n";
    print "Author: ".$b->{'author'}."\n\n";
  } else {
    print "Book: ".$scraper->isbn." not found.\n\n";
  }
}

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The above code gives error:

Can't locate object method "isbn" via package "WWW::Scraper::ISBN" at isbn_lookup.pl line 18.

I though this might be because "isbn" method was not present in "WWW::Scraper::ISBN" module (perl module documentation on Meta CPAN). I found that method in Business::ISBN module.

Also there was mention of "Business::ISBN" module in "WWW::Scraper::ISBN" module's documentation. So I added

use Business::ISBN and changed $scraper->isbn($num); to $scraper->Business::ISBN::isbn($num);

But it still throws same error.

What am I missing here? Is there any other/better way to get book details like Title/Author using ISBN?

In reply to How to pull author, title using ISBN (WWW::Scraper::ISBN)? by Perl300

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