On 28-Apr-2011, at 6:34 AM, Dan Scott wrote: > On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 2:13 AM, Anand Chitipothu <[email protected]> wrote: > <snip> >> I've extended the OL Books API to support this. (running on my dev server >> right now) > <snip> >> with jscmd=data, the API provides a lot more info. >> >> $ curl -s >> 'http://anand.openlibrary.org/api/books?bibkeys=OL22336175M,OL24218576M,OL1114172M&format=json&jscmd=data' >> { >> "OL24218576M": { >> "title": "A romance on three legs", >> "url": >> "http://anand.openlibrary.org/books/OL24218576M/A_romance_on_three_legs";, >> "key": "/books/OL24218576M", >> ... >> "ebooks": [ >> { >> "borrow_url": >> "http://openlibrary.org/books/OL24218576M/A_romance_on_three_legs/borrow";, >> "availability": "borrow", >> "preview_url": >> "http://www.archive.org/details/romanceonthreele00hafnrich";, >> "formats": { >> "djvu": { >> "url": >> "http://www.archive.org/download/romanceonthreele00hafnrich/romanceonthreele00hafnrich.djvu";, >> "permission": "restricted" >> } >> } >> } >> ] >> }, > > Hi Anand: > > This is great! I actually just went through the process of > reverse-engineering that structure, though, as > http://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/api/books hasn't been updated to > include this new format and as I was working from that page to update > and enhance the OpenLibrary plugin for Evergreen, I was surprised and > delighted by the extra details. I would have updated the page myself > but that part of the wiki appears to be locked down. So I went to post > to the mailing list and found this... nice! > > Can I ask you (or someone) to update > http://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/api/books accordingly? I'm sure it > will help other developers get to their destination a lot faster.
The Books API docs is up-to-date. Please see "jscmd=data" subsection in "The Data Format" section. 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]
