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.
Questions tagged [google-books-api]
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How to remove book cover fold on Google Books API image covers
When searching the Google Books API with a basic title search query like this (trillion dollar coach), the results return images that look like the following:
(Notice the page fold at the bottom right of the image)
Does anyone know how to get book…
Matt
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Problem with getting thumbnail using google books api (vanilla js)
I'm getting the error "Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'thumbnail' of undefined" and I don't know how to fix it. I'm using Google Book API and I'm getting this error. I don't understand this because before I use thumbnail I checked if this…
user15606194
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Using Google Books API to get ISBN from book title and author
I have a Google form where people can submit books by author and book title. I would like to use this to retrieve the ISBN.
function atSubmitForm(e) {
var formResponses = e.response;
var itemResponses = formResponses.getItemResponses();
var…
Mjsk
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Investigating quotaUser issues
I am using the Google Books API.
I currently have a Queries Per Day Limit of 1M, and a Queries per user per 100s Limit of 100.
I make requests in my server on behalf of users, so I use the quotaUser parameter.
Now, here's the rub:
In one step (when…
Stepan Parunashvili
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Google Books API find exact author
Working with the Google Books API, I'd like to be able to display other books by the same author, but the only 'author'-related filter I'm seeing in the docs is inauthor, which is looking for any authors that match the text…
R Greenstreet
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Google Books API Branding Compliance issue--infoLink returns "Not found" page
I'm working with the Google Books API and the Branding Guidelines state that I have to have a prominent link to the Google Books page for each search result. Cool, I'm fine with that.
However:
saleInfo.buyLink isn't always there in the API…
R Greenstreet
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500 Error when calling Google Books API from Firebase Cloud Function
I'm calling Google Books API in a project using Firebase with code similar to this post.
However, I'm running into an issue with production. When I try this locally I can connect to the Google Books API no problem, but it keeps failing on…
master_chef
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Getting 403 response error code when using Google Books API
So I'm using Google Books API and my code looks as follow:
axios
.get(
"https://www.googleapis.com/books/v1/volumes?q=" +
this.props.categoryName +
"&key=myKey"
)
.then((response) => {
console.log(response);
})
…
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Trying to access element in JSON using Google Books API using React
i'm trying to make a small app to track books i've read and i'm using Google Books API.
I've got the call right but when accessing the JSON data i can't seem to select the right element? (i.e.
title, author etc.)
I would have thought that the kind,…
Ben Rogers
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How can I query items by published date in Google API
How can I query for items by publishedDate in Google books API? I checked their API docs but couldn't find the answer.
testerJSrE
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Google Books API Authors
I'm using the Google Books API and I want the api to send me back book info about a specific author (like list some of their books). However my link currently doesn't seem to be doing that as whenever I use the inauthor parameter, all the books it…
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Why am I getting a CodingKeys error on the actual object I'm searching?
When I change a letter in the searchText, I receive this error.
decoding error keyNotFound(CodingKeys(stringValue: "items", intValue: nil), Swift.DecodingError.Context(codingPath: [], debugDescription: "No value associated with key…
amelia
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