Google Books Driver

Install the driver as a package from PyPI by visiting the following link on pypi.

This driver loads csv reports from google books. It can either download a CSV report from google books and return a string of its content.

The first option is web scraping using Selenium. You need a google account which has to be a dedicated account that only has access to google play books, and a second google account as recovery is needed. And 2FA also needs to be disabled to make sure the web scraping is successful. We recommended you double check the output, since there have been issues with the google API, when running the driver.

Plugin Variables Description

Variable	Description
active	The plugin will not run if this is set to false, boolean.
start_date	the date that you want to first pull results the first time the plugin runs, a string.
uri_scheme	Uri scheme to save results against, string.
gb_account	Google books account id. Numeric representation of the account, used to download the google books files, string.
user_agent	Used by selenium to initialise the configuration, string.
username	username for the google books account, string.
password	password for the google books account, string.

Example of plugin configuration file:

Gb_account - "123456789"
User_agent - "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2 Firefox/25.0"
username: ""
password: ""
uri_scheme: "info:doi"
start_date: "2023-01-01"
active: false