Re: [CODE4LIB] display book covers

2013-11-07 Thread Chris Fitzpatrick
Hi, I think you can do this all with JS or Coffeescript. Here's a fiddle : http://jsfiddle.net/chrisfitzpat/t69Xs/ On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 10:12 PM, Daryl Grenz grenzda...@hotmail.com wrote: Powell's Books provides an API (http://api.powells.com/stable) and direct links to their book

Re: [CODE4LIB] display book covers

2013-11-07 Thread Brent Ferguson
[chrisfitz...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2013 9:56 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] display book covers Hi, I think you can do this all with JS or Coffeescript. Here's a fiddle : http://jsfiddle.net/chrisfitzpat/t69Xs/ On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 10:12 PM

Re: [CODE4LIB] display book covers

2013-11-07 Thread Karen Coyle
From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Chris Fitzpatrick [chrisfitz...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2013 9:56 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] display book covers Hi, I think you can do this all with JS

Re: [CODE4LIB] display book covers

2013-11-07 Thread Adam Wead
nice! yeah, I was thinking of something along those lines. …adam On Nov 7, 2013, at 9:56 AM, Chris Fitzpatrick chrisfitz...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I think you can do this all with JS or Coffeescript. Here's a fiddle : http://jsfiddle.net/chrisfitzpat/t69Xs/ On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at

Re: [CODE4LIB] display book covers

2013-11-05 Thread Joshua Welker
I built something similar using Google Books. You'll definitely want to create a mechanism for caching the cover image URLs or else you are going to run into the API's daily limit (which is 1000 by default I think). An easy way to do it would be to store the URL and an identifier such as a bib

Re: [CODE4LIB] display book covers

2013-11-05 Thread David Lee
Google's API terms of service prohibit the caching of API results for longer than their cache header: snip Prohibitions on Content Unless expressly permitted by the content owner or by applicable law, you agree that you will not, and will not permit your end users to, do the following with

Re: [CODE4LIB] display book covers

2013-11-05 Thread Karen Coyle
Open Library's CoverStore API information is here: https://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/api/covers kc On 11/5/13 7:13 AM, Adam Wead wrote: Hi all, Anyone have some good resources about tools for gathering book cover images? I'm building that into our next catalog update, which uses