Hi, Yes, your ideas make sense, but they cannot all be easily translated to API calls.
>From ISBN to book (note that you may get multiple books that have the same ISBN) and finding the works with those books (although note that not all books have associated works; last time I counted ~20% had no work associated) are easy. Finding other books belonging to the work is not possible using the API, as far as I know. But if you manage to find them, selecting the one(s) with an ebook is again easy. Wait, scratch the above. I used the Query API before, but now see how it supports what you want. See https://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/restful_api#query You can get the editions belonging to a work like this: http://openlibrary.org/query.json?type=/type/edition&works=/works/OL678564W Hope this helps. Ben On 9 October 2014 05:17, nilanjan bhattacharya <nilanj...@live.com> wrote: > I wonder if you can help with my query - API related, but I want to get some > feedback on the concept > > Say I have an ISBN - > 1. I want to find the book in openlibrary > 2. I want to find the works > 3. Find all the related ISBNs > 4. Find the one which has an ebook > > Does that make sense? > > > ------------------ > Revelutions > Counterfactuals > > > ________________________________ > From: nilanj...@live.com > To: ol-t...@archive.org > Subject: same issue - cant get works with rest api > Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2014 23:19:38 +0800 > > > I face the same issue as previous mail with the rest api: > https://openlibrary.org/api/books?bibkeys=OLID:OL15153940W > doesn't return anything > > Is there an alternative? > > > ------------------ > Revelutions > Counterfactuals > > _______________________________________________ > Ol-discuss mailing list - Ol-discuss@archive.org > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/ol-discuss@archive.org/ > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > ol-discuss-unsubscr...@archive.org _______________________________________________ Ol-discuss mailing list - Ol-discuss@archive.org http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/ol-discuss@archive.org/ To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to ol-discuss-unsubscr...@archive.org
