I am creating a database which will contain information about book. (title, author, description, edition etc). Is there anyway i can download book data from the web so that i can insert in my database. I want database to have between 500 - 1000 books information. The database is in Sql Server.
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You could source data from websites like Amazon.com - they have APIs for this. But, you may not be able to redistribute the data without permission from Amazon. There's nothing stopping you from getting public domain data from a government organisation like the Library of Congress - they probably have it somewhere.
Thomas O
2010-10-02 19:46:41
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If you are just looking for sample data you can use the pubs db that comes with ms sql server
Conrad Frix
2010-10-02 20:02:09
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Most well known book content API's are from Amazon.com and more recent from Google (Amazon's API can often seen been republished on the web):
To see what is allowed with the Amazon API please see:
Some excelent info on other providers can be found here: Code4lib: Using Book Data Providers to Improve Services to Patrons
Kdeveloper
2010-10-02 20:08:54
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The Internet Archive offers Open Library bulk exports in a variety of formats (MARC, primarily). If you are looking for records for specific books, you might look at LibraryThing's API.
cbeer
2010-10-11 17:42:50