Use a third-party API to get book metadata

jd7h / josephine

Book catalogue system in Python 3/Django3, modeled after GoodReads and books.hansdezwart.nl. Comes with a GoodReads import script.

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Use a third-party API to get book metadata #2

Open jd7h opened 4 years ago

jd7h commented 4 years ago

Whenever a new book is added to the system, the user should get the option of querying a third party API for the metadata of the book. Possibilities: bol.com, GoodReads, Amazon?

jd7h commented 4 years ago

It seems the GoodReads public API is DOA. https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/18536888-is-the-public-api-maintained-at-all

jd7h commented 4 years ago

The Bol.com open API seems a good option for most Dutch books and some books in other languages. https://partnerblog.bol.com/documentatie/open-api/

jd7h commented 4 years ago

LibraryThing has multiple API's available, including one for book covers.
WorldCat has an API that is only usable by qualifying institutions (i.e. universities).
Open Library is an initiative from the Internet Archive which has an API that offers basic book info in Json format.

jd7h commented 4 years ago

Importing covers has been fixed in commit 71142bea6e305559d633688f76a5655fca20c9f7

jd7h commented 4 years ago

create a search/add new page
query openlibrary for books (json) 2.5 error handling
generate a page with possible hits from the json query
user selects a hit, Book object is created and saved to database