Hi Mike

On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 7:46 PM, Mike Harvey <[email protected]>wrote:

> My name is Mike Harvey and I am new to REST.
> I have the intention of writing a Windows Phone/RT app to make a nice
> interface for OL.
>
> so with this:
>
> http://openlibrary.org/query?type=/type/edition&authors=/authors/OL1A
>
>
Where did you find that example?  It isn't valid.

Is there a explanation of what the OL1A (as an example) means?
>
>
The author ID in this example is "/authors/OL1A" which identifies this
author:
http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL1A/Sachi_Rautroy


> Is there a list of other options?
>
>
The home page for the API documentation is here:
http://openlibrary.org/developers/api


> I was thinking there would be a query to list authors or get a return of 
> books by an author.
>
>
You can use search to look for authors.  To get the works for your example
author you could use:

http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL1A/works.json

You can get the editions by following the links from the works.

Hope that helps get you started.

Tom
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