Comments on: Google Book Search http://www.daveyp.com/blog/archives/290 Dave Pattern's weblog Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:54:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: nostuff.org » Blog Archive » Google Books API http://www.daveyp.com/blog/archives/290#comment-42893 nostuff.org » Blog Archive » Google Books API Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:58:11 +0000 http://www.daveyp.com/blog/index.php/archives/290/#comment-42893 [...] released an API for their Book Search at the end of last week. You can implement this in two ways: static (just [...] [...] released an API for their Book Search at the end of last week. You can implement this in two ways: static (just [...]

]]> By: Dave Pattern http://www.daveyp.com/blog/archives/290#comment-42875 Dave Pattern Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:01:26 +0000 http://www.daveyp.com/blog/index.php/archives/290/#comment-42875 Looks like the announcement was a day later than they originally said, but it's on their blog now: <a href="http://booksearch.blogspot.com/2008/03/preview-books-anywhere-with-new-google.html" rel="nofollow">Preview books anywhere with the new Google Book Search API</a> It wasn't too difficult to hack into HIP, although it was made tricky by the fact that our HIP stopped passing the ISBN as a discreet field in the XML version of the page after the 3.04 to 3.08 upgrade. The API is desgined to run client side rather than server side, and I found they blocked initial attempts to call the API using Perl LWP (faking the HTTP USER AGENT field is one way around that tho). Looks like the announcement was a day later than they originally said, but it's on their blog now:

Preview books anywhere with the new Google Book Search API

It wasn't too difficult to hack into HIP, although it was made tricky by the fact that our HIP stopped passing the ISBN as a discreet field in the XML version of the page after the 3.04 to 3.08 upgrade.

The API is desgined to run client side rather than server side, and I found they blocked initial attempts to call the API using Perl LWP (faking the HTTP USER AGENT field is one way around that tho).

]]> By: Chris Keene http://www.daveyp.com/blog/archives/290#comment-42871 Chris Keene Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:05:39 +0000 http://www.daveyp.com/blog/index.php/archives/290/#comment-42871 nothing on their blog. But I note Dave filed it under "Horizon/HIP"... Book Search being intergrated in Horizon 9?? (out of curosity, does mentioning horizon version number higher than 7 annoy Dynix customers in the UK!?) nothing on their blog. But I note Dave filed it under "Horizon/HIP"… Book Search being intergrated in Horizon 9??
(out of curosity, does mentioning horizon version number higher than 7 annoy Dynix customers in the UK!?)

]]> By: Jonathan Rochkind http://www.daveyp.com/blog/archives/290#comment-42869 Jonathan Rochkind Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:07:21 +0000 http://www.daveyp.com/blog/index.php/archives/290/#comment-42869 The suspense! Still hoping for news. The suspense! Still hoping for news.

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