Powell's Books provides an API (http://api.powells.com/stable) and direct links to their book covers by ISBN13 only. Regarding the limit on daily use of the Google Books API, I think from when I used it before that if you access cover links through the Dynamic Links API (https://developers.google.com/books/docs/dynamic-links) there is no daily limit. - Daryl
> Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 15:13:35 +0000 > From: aw...@rockhall.org > Subject: [CODE4LIB] display book covers > To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU > > Hi all, > > Anyone have some good resources about tools for gathering book cover images? > I'm building that into our next catalog update, which uses Blacklight, but > I'm not necessarily looking for Rails-only approaches. My questions are more > general: > > What sources are out there? (ex. Google Books, amazon) > > Making it work? > I'm trying out Google Books at the moment, just making a call to their API. > This can be asynchronously and loaded after the rest of the page, or cached, > perhaps even store the url in solr or a database table? > > Tools? > I am trying out a Google Books gem[1], which is just a wrapper for the api. > > Other thoughts? > > Thanks in advance, > > …adam > > ______________________________ > Adam Wead > Systems and Digital Collections Librarian > Library + Archives > Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum > 216.515.1960 > aw...@rockhall.org > > [1] https://github.com/zeantsoi/GoogleBooks > This communication is a confidential and proprietary business communication. > It is intended solely for the use of the designated recipient(s). If this > communication is received in error, please contact the sender and delete this > communication.
