Seb, The last time I built an application using the Google Java API the documentation stated a limit of 1,000 queries per day, which was in 2005. It probably hasn't changed, although I'm not sure. Perhaps a way around that is to cache queries into another file and then first query the cache before sending a query to Google. I guess that the idea is not to have cover images stored locally because of the size of the files, however.
Michael ------------------------------------- Michael Sutherland Web Services Librarian Montana State University Libraries P.O. Box 173320 Bozeman, MT, USA 59717-3320 Ph: (406) 994-6429 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sebastian Hammer Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 10:32 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Free covers from Google Is there any word on a limit to the number of hits per day on the Google API? I missed it in the docs if it's there, only saw an ominous warning that you might see the service temporarily disabled if you generated an 'unusually high number of hits' during development. --Seb Joe Atzberger wrote: > Impressive! As luck would have it, I'm working on the question of book > images in Koha this week... > --joe atzberger > > On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 3:14 AM, Godmar Back <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Hi Tim, >> >> I think this proposal suffers from the same shortcoming as >> LibraryThing's widgets, which is that only one per page is allowed. Aj >> better way may be to use spans and classes and keep the JavaScript in >> a library. >> I've attached the resulting HTML below; see http://libx.org/gbs/ for a >> demo. >> >> - Godmar >> >> --- index.html: >> !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> >> <html> >> <head> >> <script src="http://libx.org/gbs/gbsclasses.js"; >> type="text/javascript"> </script> >> <title>Simple Demo for Google Book Classes</title> >> </head> >> >> <body> >> <span title="ISBN:0743226720" class="gbs-thumbnail"></span> >> <span title="ISBN:0061234001" class="gbs-thumbnail"></span> >> <span title="ISBN:1931798230" class="gbs-thumbnail"></span> >> >> <span title="ISBN:0596000278" class="gbs-thumbnail"></span> >> <span title="0439554934" class="gbs-thumbnail"></span> >> <span title="OCLC:60348769" class="gbs-thumbnail"></span> >> <span title="LCCN:2004022563" class="gbs-thumbnail"></span> >> </body> >> </html> >> >> On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 2:04 AM, Tim Spalding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >>> (Apologies for cross-posting) >>> >>> I just posted a simple way to get free book covers into your OPAC. It >>> uses the new Google Book Search API. >>> >>> >>> >> http://www.librarything.com/thingology/2008/03/free-covers-for-your-libr ary-from.php >> >>> I think Google has as much cover coverage as anyone. The API is free. >>> Most libraries pay. I'm thinking this is a big deal? >>> >>> We'll probably fancy it up a bit as an add-on to our LibraryThing for >>> Libraries service, but the core idea can be implemented by anyone. >>> >>> I look forward to refinements. >>> >>> Tim >>> >>> -- >>> Check out my library at http://www.librarything.com/profile/timspalding >>> >>> > > -- Sebastian Hammer, Index Data [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.indexdata.com Ph: (603) 209-6853 Fax: (866) 383-4485
