Google Books REST API v1
Use the Google Book Search Data API to get and modify Book Search content via feeds. Submit full-text searches for books and get book information, ratings, and reviews. Optionally get individual users' library collections and public reviews. Submit authenticated requests to create and modify library collections, ratings, labels, reviews, and more.

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Specs
Yes
API Key, OAuth 2
1
Recommended (active, supported)
Yes
Web/Internet
Single purpose API
No
REST
JSON, JSONP, URI Query String/CRUD
JSON, JSONP
No
No
No
Followers (355)
Developers (13)
API Mashups (14)
- Bookfinder is a mobile application that lets users browse and search for different book titles. The application uses a few different APIs, including Google Books and Open Library.
- Vplan.com/search is a multi-search engine that easily allows for customized searching.
- Google Books takes a couple of search steps to show if an ebook is available for free download in PDF or EPUB format. This app lets you find free eBooks from the Google Books collection in a single...
Related Articles (2)
10 Most Popular APIs for Books
ProgrammableWeb lists dozens of APIs in the Books category, for everything regearding books, including book buying, book sharing, literacy, textbooks, and book reviews. In this article, we detail the top ten book APIs from that category based on the amount of page visits for each API.
53 Books APIs: Google Books, Goodreads and SharedBook
The Books category contains APIs for book sharing, retail, social publishing, book creation, accessibility aids, book exchanges, metadata and more. This article focuses on 53 Books APIs including Readmill API and the popular Google Books API. We list 11 Google mashups along with other Books APIs.
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