FR: Books and Subject Heading APIs

[brimwats]

Hi!

would you consider adding worldcat: https://www.oclc.org/developer/api/oclc-apis/worldcat-search-api.en.html

and maybe subject heading APIs: https://libraryofcongress.github.io/data-exploration/responses.html
https://www.oclc.org/developer/api/oclc-apis/fast-api.en.html

[brimwats]

also: wikidata and wikipedia?

https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=help
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page

heres a list of other API ideas:
https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis

[mProjectsCode]

I can look into it, I just don't want to make the book search plug-in obsolete.
Maybe I should get in touch with them.

[brimwats]

I see that Wikipedia is supported now! would you consider Wikidata as well?

[AB1908]

TBH worldcat API was garbage. I'll double check though. Meanwhile, I've been using Open Library. Decent public API.

[AB1908]

Oh hmm, looks like they have a new API but it's for institutions only. Oh well.

[brimwats]

Open Library is pretty good. I'm still holding out for a Wikidata one!

[brimwats]

hi @mProjectsCode ; I was wondering if you had any further thoughts on possibly adding a wikidata or library subject heading api?

https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=help
https://libraryofcongress.github.io/data-exploration/responses.html

[jun6lee]

The book search plugin is somewhat limited, uses Google Books which misses out a lot of the books I own.

[AB1908]

TBH there are very few (good) book related APIs out there. Maybe we should crowdsource one haha.