Hey ya'll,
I wanted to build a personal project for better tracking the books I read. I was wondering if:<p>1. There are any good apis for getting book data and author information (including demographic information). Paid is fine as well, if it's not too much I could consider that.<p>2. Anyones built something similar which collates this data from different places. Would be interested in hearing the how of that.<p>Cheers
I'd suggest looking at OCLC (Worldcat) or the Library of Congress.<p><a href="https://www.loc.gov/apis/json-and-yaml/" rel="nofollow">https://www.loc.gov/apis/json-and-yaml/</a><p><a href="https://www.oclc.org/developer/develop/web-services/worldcat-search-api.en.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.oclc.org/developer/develop/web-services/worldcat...</a><p>Cataloging information is pretty straightforward to find. Author demographics may be trickier, though if you can sort how to query Wikipedia, you might be able to work with something there.<p>Wikipedia's BookSource page(s) might also be of value. It's indexed by ISBN, so you'll need to provide that or acquire it elsewhere.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0571345751" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0571345751</a><p>There's ISBN Search: <a href="https://isbnsearch.org/" rel="nofollow">https://isbnsearch.org/</a>