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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