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Importing Your Goodreads and Accessing Them with Open Library’s APIs
- sudobash1 6y ago> One of my favorite parts of Open Library is that practically every page is an API. All that is required is adding “.json” to the end. Here are some examples: > >Search >https://openlibrary.org/search?q=lord+of+the+rings https://openlibrary.org/search?q=lord+of+the+rings is our search page for humans… >https://openlibrary.org/search.json?q=lord+of+the+rings https://openlibrary.org/search.json?q=lord+of+the+rings is our Search API! This is a really intuitive way to do this.
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 6y agoIt is also spider-friendly as to its static pages. See robots.txt Take the page URL for any work, add .json and you get bibliographic information, including the page URL(s) for the author(s). For example, https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1234567W.json All the page URLs for Works and Authors are available as gzip'd XML at https://openlibrary.org/static/sitemaps/