how to get available languages of a specific work

[alicimen0614]

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I want to get a specific works available languages , trending and searching api provides languages but works and category api doesnt provide it how can I achieve it? ### Additional context

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[mekarpeles]

I think you want to use the https://openlibrary.org/search.json?q= API as I believe this will return language

[alicimen0614]

I do know that search api returns language as ı pointed out on my question the question was can we return languages from a specific work https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1968368W.json for example this doesn't have it

[tfmorris]

There are a lot of obscure corners of the API which aren't very well documented. There are a couple of ways to do this:

• https://openlibrary.org/search.json?q=key:/works/OL1968368W&fields=key,title,language (it won't work without the /works/ prefix on the key)
• https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1968368W/editions.json - Note that this is paginated, so you'll either need to add &limit=100 or do another call with the URL from the links.next field (ie add ?offset=50).

If you want to browse subjects, you can use:

• https://openlibrary.org/search.json?subject=Contr%C3%B4le%20(Psychologie.)&fields=key,title,language,subject

Naturally, the different APIs return the language information in different formats, so be prepared to handle that.

[alicimen0614]

There are a lot of obscure corners of the API which aren't very well documented. There are a couple of ways to do this:

• https://openlibrary.org/search.json?q=key:/works/OL1968368W&fields=key,title,language (it won't work without the /works/ prefix on the key)
• https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1968368W/editions.json - Note that this is paginated, so you'll either need to add &limit=100 or do another call with the URL from the links.next field (ie add ?offset=50).

If you want to browse subjects, you can use:

• https://openlibrary.org/search.json?subject=Contr%C3%B4le%20(Psychologie.)&fields=key,title,language,subject

Naturally, the different APIs return the language information in different formats, so be prepared to handle that.

Thank you that was helpful