BookNomads

We are a book sharing platform, you can add your books and people can request to borrow or buy them.

The API is for searching the dutch database and it is free, but if you use it and refer BookNomads to your friends we will be very happy. (kind of Beerware license)

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API

Dutch ISBN search

2.5million books processed from titelbank.nl

https://www.booknomads.com/api/v0/isbn/{ISBN}
If the books is found it returns an object:

    {
      "ISBN": "string", 
      "Title": "string", -- the title, or all titles 
                            concatinated with comma or empty if missing
      "Subtitle": "string",
      "Description": "string",
      "CoverThumb": "string", -- base64 data/image url that you can 
                                 directly display, resized to 200x200, 
                                 or empty if missing
      "LanguageCode": "string", -- iso699-1 language 
                                   code (en,nl,fr..etc) or "xx" if missing
      "Subjects": [
        "string" -- array of strings of book's subjects according
                    to their NUR code, could be empty array
      ],
      "Authors": [
        {
          "Name": "string"
        }
      ]
    }

Example:

$ curl -s https://www.booknomads.com/api/v0/isbn/9789000010134 | json_pp
{
   "LanguageCode" : "nl",
   "Title" : "Tobbe",
   "CoverThumb" : "data:image/jpeg;base64,/9j/2wCEAAgGBgcGBQgHBwcJ....",
   "Description" : "",
   "ISBN" : "9789000035526",
   "Subtitle" : "",
   "Subjects": ["Fictie 13-15 jaar"],
   "Authors" : [
      {
         "Name" : "M.  Engstrom"
      },
      {
         "Name" : "B.  Custers"
      }
   ]
}
            

the image you can directly embed in <img>'s src attribute <img src="data:image/jpeg;base64,/9j/2wCE...."> like so:

Try it out at https://app.swaggerhub.com/apis/BookNomads/book_by_isbn/1.0.0

Error handling

When error occurs we return json object with http status code: 500, the object contains only type and error fields
type the exception class
error error message

Example:

curl -s http://localhost:4569/api/v0/isbn/123123123123 | json_pp
{
   "type" : "IllegalArgumentException",
   "error" : "isbn [123123123123] not found"
}

Updates

We will keep extending the object without changing any existing types keeping compatability.

Questions

you can contact us at info@booknomads.com

Rate Limit

there is no rate limit at the moment, but please try to keep your requests to less than 5 per second

License

the API is free and open, use the data however you want, but if you provide a link to https://www.booknomads.com we will be grateful