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For questions regarding interacting with the API provided by Google to interact with information within the Google Books system, including retrieving book information, and managing Google users' Google Books content.

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How to retrieve an url to a book cover only knowing its isbn

is there a way to obtain an URL to a cover of a book when only knowing the book's API? I have tried two approaches yet. First, https://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/api/covers which does not work for me since they did not find any covers for the…
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How can I interpret my JSON via Google Books API URL and display it on my HTML page using JS?

So, I am trying to pull the volume info from the JSON array from the URL provided: https://www.googleapis.com/books/v1/volumes?q=HTML5 Trying to pull author, title, images, page numbers and description. This specific class of my HTML code I want to…
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Google Books Api gives wrong results in search

When I search for something like if let url = URL(string: "https://www.googleapis.com/books/v1/volumes?q=regretting+you") On my browser I get the correct results: But my debug console gives me these results It looks like its searching the search…
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Google Books API not returning the same as displayed on browser (Flutter)

I am building a book app with Flutter for Android and iOS. I am using Google Books API to retrieve book data, but I have noticed something strange which I dont understand. If we look at the book data displayed in chrome browser…
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How to get higher res image from Google Books Api?

When I try to get a higher resolution image from the google books API it only gives me the small thumbnail size that is 128 X 209 and I can't get a larger image This is my url: if let url = URL(string:…
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Displaying State of an Async Api call in SwiftUI

This question builds on my previous question. Basically Im making an async call to the Google Books Api when a certain button is pressed. While I got the call working when its a method of the View however I want to overlay an activity indicator…
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No value associated with key CodingKeys error

I'm trying to retrieve json from the google books api Here are my structs: struct Book: Codable { let volumeInfo: VolumeInfo } struct VolumeInfo: Codable { let title: String let authors: [String] let publisher, publishedDate,…
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Django google books API totalItems is changing

I am creating an application that retrieves data from the google books API. At the very beginning I download a number of books from JSON ["totalItems"] and iterate through the for loop, calling the API in order to get another 40 items. The problem…
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langRestrict=en doesn't return any values anymore

I used to use queries like this when…
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Unexpected return from JSON lookup when using request.form.get

I found some questions similar to mine but I couldn't solve this problem. I'm trying to perform a search via the Google Books API, but I can't get what the user types.
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How to consume JSON data and ignore repeated values?

I'm consuming a Google Books API to display results from a simple book search. However, when performing the search, some items return repeated. See: book-search To GET this data and display in HTML, I am doing this: var result =…
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How to return a search result with multiple books using the Google Books API?

I'm consuming a Google Books API and I'm trying to return a search result with multiple books. Here's what I'm doing: def lookup(search): """Look up search for books.""" # Contact API try: url =…
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Making api requests on an array of objects using async/await and Promise.all()

I'm creating a simple book search app, I make an initial api request to get an array of book objects, then I need to make an api request on each individual book to get the dimensions. When I console.log the initial array of books the book objects…
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How to fetch only certain values from a complex JSON (Google Books API) in Swfit

I've been trying to develop an app which fetches certain information of a book from Google Books API (name, author and image) and display the image inside a collection view var bookInfo = [Book]() let urlString =…
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Google Books API erroneously incrementing totalItems returned

I am working on an asp.net application that uses the Google Books API. I am using the API to return a list of books based on a search query. public async Task SearchBooks(string query, int startIndex = 0, int maxResults =…
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