OLDumpReader

PHP Library that reads OpenLibrary books dump as Packets from the compressed .gz format

OpenLibrary Dumps are available at Download Dump link

Requirements:

• Composer
• PHP

How to use OLDumpReader:

add folowining code inside your composer.json

  "repositories": [
        {
            "type": "vcs",
            "url": "https://github.com/manindersingh030/OLDumpReader.git"
        }
        ...
    ],
    "require": {
        "taggar/ol-dump-reader": "dev-master",
        ...
    }

and run $composer update

#inside php file

<?php
require __DIR__.'/../vendor/autoload.php';
use OLDumpReader\OlReader;

$dumpLocation ='<dump_full_path>';
$reader = new OLReader($dumpLocation); 
$reader->seekToLastLocation();
var_dump($reader->getNextPacket());

Documentation

Available Methods

getNextPacket()

returns next packet as array 
note: includes starting_location and ending_location key which represents locations inside compressed file of starting and ending of packet respectively

getNextRawPacket()

returns next packet as raw string 

output format as Raw Packet

each of following is seprated by a tab '\t'

<packet_starting_inside_compressed_file> <packet_ending_inside_compressed_file> <type> <key> <revision> <last_modified> <json>

seekToLastLocation()

moves currunt pointer to last known packet location.
note: this doesnot goes at the end of the file but seeks to location of last packet that was parsed.

seekToPosition($seekLocation);

moves pointer to $seekLocation