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Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search and Google Print) is a service from Google Inc. that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition, and stored in its digital database.

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Why incorrect "pageCount" returned using Google Books API?

When I am calling "books.volumes.get" API, I am getting a "pageCount" which is different than calling "books.volumes.list" API for the exact same book. Taking for example "Cryptography decrypted" book title, using the Google API Explorer I will get…
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Google book API limit and api key

I'm creating a website that uses only the Google book search API, should I use the api key every time the user sends a request searching for a specific book? And is there a limit if users send requests without my api key?
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How to get list of categories in Google Books API?

I was searching for an already answered question about this but couldn't find one so please forgive me if I somehow missed it. I'm using Google Books API and I know I can search a book by specific category. My question is, how can I get all the…
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How does Google Books find text regions?

One challenging topic in computer vision is processing document scans. Typically this involves a number of steps, like noise removal, color analysis, binarization, text block identification, OCR, and then maybe some context analysis and correction. …
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Google Books API Auth errors

I'm building an Android app and am trying to integrate the Google Books API into my app. Right now, logging in works. I get the consent screen and it contains a request for access to the Google Books data I have on my account. I'm now trying to…
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book synopsis api from google or amazon?

If I use amazon or google book, for example http://www.amazon.com/The-Inca-Trail-Trailblazer-Trekking/dp/1873756291 or http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=rLwNAAAACAAJ&dq=isbn:1873756291&hl=&source=gbs_api Both return the same book…
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Google Book orderby bug?

I'm really confused with the Google Books API, and I strongly believe that the "orderBy" is bugged, this is the official API documentation: https://developers.google.com/books/docs/v1/using#st_params and this is an example of a query using orderBy…
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Google Books API server not accepting calls from Heroku server

I'm developing an application in JAX-RS on a Heroku server but I've run into issues making calls to the Google Books API from the server. I've been using the Java libraries provided by Google to make these calls and on some occasions it works but…
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How to sort search result in reverse order of publication date in Google books?

Google books provide sorted by date option on the left column to sort searched books. But the result seems that publication date is in descending order ( from latest to oldest). This may not be fit for finding the oldest if there are thousands of…
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does anyone know of google books api bestseller list?

I use Google Books Api for my Andorid Mobile Application project. I didnt find , Anyone knows bestseller list.e.g? Thank you.
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Should I worry about my API Keys being extracted from the iOS app

I need to make requests to the Google Books API form my app which includes the API key in the URL. I thought about just creating it as file private variable in my app, though this is a big problem because it would then be uploaded to Github. Then I…
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Google Books API Limit Results

Is there any way to limit the results returned by the Google Books API? For example the following URL: https://www.googleapis.com/books/v1/volumes?q=isbn:0751538310 Returns the following: "kind": "books#volumes", "totalItems": 1, "items": [ { …
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GAE google books api

I'm making a GAE app using Python 2.7.11. This is my first project building a GAE app, and I'm new to web development also. Link here. I am trying to access the Google Book's API in order to retrieve book information. Everything works flawlessly…
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Googleapis.com Unknown Host Exception

Following Problem: I'm trying to get Information over the Google Books API, i found this Example, but if i excute this it get the following Error. java.net.UnknownHostException: www.googleapis.com at…
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Google Books API 403 Access Not Configured

I'm trying to contact the Google Books API and perform a title search, which only requires a public API key and no OAUTH2. All I get is the following error: { "error": { "errors": [ { "domain": "usageLimits", …
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