Using the Internet Archives Open Library APIs Live Demos

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In this video, Mek, Program Lead for the non-profit Internet Archive's Open Library, gives a short walkthrough of openlibrary.org's APIs. • Learn how to retrieve information about books, how to make searches, and even how to search inside millions of qualifying books. • 0:00 Welcome! • 0:22 Finding the API Docs • 0:45 On Open Library, every page is an API • 1:48 The Books APIs • 3:40 Fetching a Work's Authors • 4:40 Fetching a Work's Editions • 6:28 Fetching a specific Edition • 8:24 Fetching an Edition by ISBN • 9:46 Advanced Books APIs (OCLC, LCCN) • 10:38 The Search API • 11:56 Paginating the Search API • 12:39 A Demo of APIs in Action (Bazam.org) • 13:34 The Full-text Search API (search-inside) • 14:52 Let's Look at Bazam's Code • 18:01 Play With the Code Yourself (on Github)! • 18:40 Data Dumps for High-Traffic Applications • 19:32 Want to help? Write Bots to Improve Open Library's Data • 19:47 Follow us on twitter! / openlibrary • API Portal: • https://openlibrary.org/developers/api • Example APIs: • Work: • https://openlibrary.org/works/OL21637... • Edition: • https://openlibrary.org/books/OL22155... • Search: • http://openlibrary.org/search.json?q=... • Search-inside • http://openlibrary.org/search/inside.... • Demo: • Bazam.org: See an example of the Full-text Search API in action: • https://github.com/ArchiveLabs/bazam.org • Data Dumps: • https://openlibrary.org/developers/dumps • Accessing YOUR data: • https://blog.openlibrary.org/2020/12/... • Questions? • Ask @ https://gitter.im/theopenlibrary/Lobby • Or send an email to [email protected] • Open Library is open-source! Want to contribute? • Learn more: http://openlibrary.org/volunteer • Browse the code: https://github.com/internetarchive/op... • Getting started guide: https://github.com/internetarchive/op... • Protip: • Want your book website to tap into the full power of Open Library by featuring borrow links for your audience? Ask us about our simple and free Availability API which lets your website know which books are available right now from the Internet Archive's controlled digital lending library.

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