Hi Ed, Yes, OPDS support is definitely on the list, probably even for all records, even when there's no epub at the end.
g Ed Summers wrote: > I just noticed that the 'Dynamic Links API' link is broken. Also there > are some escaped forward slashes in the URLs in the example responses. > I wonder have you considered including explicit links to the epub and > pdf in the 'links' slot? > > On a related note, do you all have OPDS support on your roadmap at all? > > http://opds-spec.org/ > > OPDS is very similar to the Atom that Google Books API makes available. > > //Ed > > On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Anand Chitipothu <[email protected]> wrote: >> The Open Library Books API was introduced to provide a Google Books >> compatible API for Open Library. >> >> http://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/api/books >> >> Unlike the other APIs, the Books API can be queried for multiple keys >> (isbns, oclc numbers, etc.). >> >> I propose adding some extensions to the API to make it fit nicely into >> various use cases. >> >> JSON EXTENSION: >> >> By default, the output of this API is javascript. It will be nice to >> support JSON so that it can be used at the server-side. >> >> I propose supporting an optional "format" argument. >> >> http://openlibrary.org/api/books?bibkeys=ISBN:0451526538&jscmd=viewapi&format=json >> >> DATA EXTENSION: >> >> There is already an extension to provide the data of the matching >> editions by adding "&details=true" to the URL. With this, any change >> to the data model will break the API. That can be solved by >> maintaining multiple versions of the API, but it will nice if we can >> come up with a format independent of the data model. >> >> Here is what I have in my mind. >> >> Sample URL: >> http://openlibrary.org/api/books?bibkeys=ISBN:0451526538&jscmd=data&format=json >> Sample Response: >> >> { >> "ISBN:0931137071": { >> "key": "/books/OL1M", >> "title": "...", >> "subtitle": "...", >> "authors": { >> "key": "/authors/OL1A", >> "name": "Foo" >> }, >> "publishers": [{ >> "name": "Foo", >> }], >> "publish_date": "1024", >> "publish_places": [{ >> "name": "New York" >> }], >> "identifiers": { >> "isbn": [...], >> "lccn": [...], >> "goodreads": [...], >> }, >> "classifications": { >> "lc_classifications": [...], >> }, >> "cover": { >> "small": "http://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/1234-S.jpg";, >> "medium": "http://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/1234-M.jpg"; >> "large": "http://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/1234-L.jpg"; >> }, >> "description": "...", >> "excepts": [...], >> "links": [{ >> "title": "Author's website", >> "url": "http://...."; >> }], >> "table_of_contents": [...], >> "ebooks": [{ >> "info_url": "http://www.archive.org/details/...";, >> "formats": ["pdf", "epub"], >> }], >> "subject": [...], >> "subject_places": [...], >> "subject_people": [...], >> "subject_times": [...], >> } >> } >> >> I moved all the identifiers together and classifications together. For >> author, both name and key are provided. For publishers and >> publish_places, only the name is provided. Other attributes can be >> added in future with breaking the API. >> >> Notice that some information from work record is also presented here >> (description, excerpts, links, subjects etc.). Also ebooks is made >> into a list of objects with "info_url" and available formats. >> >> What do you think about this approach? >> >> Anand >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Ol-tech mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech >> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to >> [email protected] >> > _______________________________________________ > Ol-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > [email protected] _______________________________________________ Ol-tech mailing list [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
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