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For questions regarding interacting with the API provided by Google to interact with information within the Google Books system, including retrieving book information, and managing Google users' Google Books content.

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Google books API searching by ISBN

I am trying to figure out how to search for a book by ISBN using the Google Books API. I need to write a program that searches for an ISBN then prints out the title, author, and edition. I tried using List volumesList = books.volumes.list(""); but…
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High quality book covers using Google Books API

According to the Google Books API documentation each volume yields 6 different imageLinks (smallThumbnail, thumbnail, small, medium, large, extraLarge). Unfortunately, for all the queries I've tried (and I've tried a lot) only smallThumbnail and…
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How to get books of searched category in Google Books API?

I am using Google Books API in my Angular project. I have list of different static categories of the Books. On click of particular category, I want to get books of the searched category from Google Books API. There is no API available in Google…
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How to reduce request time in a JSON or replace a dictionary key with a default one?

I have a list of dictionaries and I'm filling it out as I search a JSON url. The problem is that JSON (provided by the Google Books API) is not always complete. This is a search for books and from what I saw, all of them have id, title and authors,…
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How do I prevent empty values in my search bar, in React?

So, I am building a book finder in React using Google Books API. The user types the name of the book he/she wants to search, in the input field, and the value typed in the input is appended to the end of the API url. Basically, the API is called…
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Google books API returns JSON with a seemingly wrong "totalItem" value

I have a program in JAVA that sends an HTTP GET message to Google Books API. I want to get books that answer the search criteria "cooking". The max number of items in a response is 40 and this is the number I set in the GET…
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How to use Google Books API to search inside a specific book for specific keyword?

I would like to search inside a specific book for a specific keyword. Is this possible with the Google Books API? I've read the documentation and cannot find an endpoint that will allow me to do this, nor any mention of this functionality. I know…
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Detect when image unavailable in Google Books API

Im using Google Books API in order to get some covers of books. In order to get them I use the following url: "http://books.google.com/books/content?id=" + id + "&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl&source=gbs_api" Where id is unique for a…
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Google Books API - Book Details not Returned

So I started using the Google Books API for an application that I am building and I am fairly happy with the results. But I have noticed a strange behaviour sometimes. Some ISBNs do not return any book details even though the book exists in the…
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Best way to get original book volume with Google Books API

Was wondering if anyone had found a reliable way of accessing the first edition of a book via Google Books API (or another API for that matter)? The idea here would be to get the first published date of a novel. For example Orwell's 1984 would be…
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Issue Overcoming Missing Values in API App

I was playing with a Swift app someone made on Youtube that accesses the Google Books API and returns the results of a (hard-coded) query. While playing with it, I noticed it kept crashing. Playing with it a little I realized it crashes when it…
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How to stream read pdf from Googlebook API?

I want to use Google Book API for my library app. User can tracks book page, and read the pdf, so I can't redirect my user to Google Book API. If user need to buy book, user can pay to Google Book. Is there a way to do this? Is there any free/paid…
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Google Books Api Searching by ISBN doesn't always work

I'm not always getting results when searching by isbn with the google books api For example this isbn won't work with the isbn query https://www.googleapis.com/books/v1/volumes?q=isbn:9780593437810&maxResults=40&langRestrict=en but if I remove it…
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Google Books Embedded viewer API javascript implementation - google.books.load is not a function

I'm trying to implement the Google Books API on a Library website where I don't have full access to the html - just the homepage, css, and a custom.js file. I have a bit of experience with python but i'm very new to javascript. The site uses…
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Where does the Google Books API get its data from?

There are cases when the API is missing data like page length, but the data is present in the books.google.xx/book domain. Is there any correlation between the API and the books.google site?
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