Retrieve information from a website and store it in an excel sheet

Question

I want to make a program that takes and isbn number and searches the web for the information about the book assosciated with that number and then store that information in an excel sheet. I am not sure how to go about doing this.

I was thinking about making a Java program that uses the JSoup library to retrieve information from a url and then simply putting that information in a text file so the user can manually copy and paste it into an excel sheet, but there has to be a direct way. Any help would be appreciated. Thankyou.

Answer 1

For getting the info,

http://code.google.com/apis/books/docs/getting-started.html

http://bibwild.wordpress.com/2008/03/19/think-you-can-use-amazon-api-for-library-service-book-covers/

Then you can use Java Excel API to enter to the excel sheet. You can find the tutorial about that here http://www.andykhan.com/jexcelapi/tutorial.html

Answer 2

http://poi.apache.org/spreadsheet/index.html

apache project for manipulating excel in java