I am working on an application for a bookstore, and I was wondering the best way to retrieve book cover art by ISBN. If any of you people know, I would really appreciate the tip. I'm using http://isbndb.com for all of the rest of the data, but it doesn't include an image location in its XML response. Would Amazon's Advertising API take ...
I've been using the Open Library Books API, but it lacks many of the books I have. Which API has the best coverage (especially for non-English books)? Edit: I'm particularly interested in APIs that can be accessed from the server side and that provide metadata (author, title, publisher, year, etc). My coverage benchmark is this arbitra...
I've got a file with some book data in MARC format, of which some lines are ISBNs. I'd like to replace these lines with the Google Books ID of that ISBN, if it exists. Here's the code so far, which just ends up removing the lines: perl -pe "s#ISBN(.*)#$(wget --output-document=- --quiet --user-agent=Mozilla/5.0 \"http://books.google.com/...
Hi, I am using Google Books API to let a user search for a particular book and display the results. The problem is that different editions of the same book have different ISBNs. Is there any way to club these reprints, based on the information the API returns ? I want to do this is because I have the ISBNs of some of the editions in my ...
I used to be able to do 13 digit ISBN lookups, but now I can't. Here is the query for the 13-digit ISBN: 9780073380957. http://ecs.amazonaws.com/onca/xml?AWSAccessKeyId=&ItemId=9780073380957&Operation=ItemLookup&ResponseGroup=Images%2CItemAttributes&Service=AWSECommerceService&Timestamp=2009-12-16T14%3A30%3A02Z&...
hi, can a valid 13-digit ISBN have any character other then digit 0-9? i.e., can a valid 13-digit ISBN contain character 'X'? ...
I am trying to find a list of what ISBNs are in use. I guess I could scrape a website like Amazon but that would waste a lot of bandwidth. Is there a better (free) way? ...
Ok, I wanting to database a small library. I've only had limited experience with databases, and none with querying from a webserver. I'm going to want to retrieve information like title, Publisher, maybe author, description the simplest way I can think of dooing this is looking them up via the ISBN. I've come across isbndb.com before,...
I've got a list of several hundred book titles. Is there a way to batch convert them to Amazon.com ASIN codes? I realize I could do it manually one by one, but I don't have that kind of patience or time. I know there are some ISBN to ASIN converters but I don't have the ISBNs. Thanks. ...
I built an inventory database where ISBN numbers are the primary keys for the items. This worked great for a while as the items were books. Now I want to add non-books. some of the non-books have EANs or ISSNs, some do not. It's in PostgreSQL with django apps for the frontend and JSON api, plus a few supporting python command-line tools...
Is there a way to look up the various editions of a book based on its ISBN using the Amazon Product Advertising API? And, more generally, what are the various choices for looking up edition metadata on a book? Only one I know of for sure is the xISBN api from worldcat On my site we have a "more editions" button for when people search ...
Even just a simple <?php readfile($_GET['url']) ?> results in a not acceptable error. Any thoughts? ...
For example: code = '7777-5'; input = code.substring(0, 4); // Returns '7777' checkdigit = f(input); // f() produces a checkdigit assert.areEqual(code, input + "-" + checkdigit) Is there a technical term for input used above? Specifically I'm calculating checkdigits for ISBNs, but that shouldn't effect the answer. ...