I wanted to mention that I pointed to the Open Library covers API
earlier, and it so happens that was on a day when OL covers was down
(possibly due to the disruption of the fire at the Internet Archive). So
if you've been having trouble with OL covers, it has been reported that
they are now available again.
https://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/api/covers
kc
On 11/7/13 6:57 AM, Brent Ferguson wrote:
LibraryThing's API may have book cover art , can't remember...
We pay for Syndetics (cover art service) (owned by Bowker) and can use that for
our cover art outside PAC
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From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Chris
Fitzpatrick [chrisfitz...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2013 9:56 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] display book covers
Hi,
I think you can do this all with JS or Coffeescript.
Here's a fiddle :
http://jsfiddle.net/chrisfitzpat/t69Xs/
On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 10:12 PM, Daryl Grenz <grenzda...@hotmail.com> wrote:
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
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