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google-books-search-2

A node wrapper for the Google Books API. Based on the original project google-books-search.


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node-google-books-search-2

A lightweight node wrapper for the Google Books API.

Install

npm install google-books-search-2

Basic Usage

.search(query, options, callback)

Search for books matching the specified query.

var books = require('google-books-search');

books.search("Professional JavaScript for Web Developers")
.then(function(results) {
	console.log(results);
})
.catch(function(error) {
	console.log(error);
});

Returns an array of JSON objects. For example;

[
	{
		"id":"9KJJYFIss_wC",
		"title":"Professional Javascript For Web Developers 2Nd Ed",
		"authors":[
			"Nicholas C. Zakas"
		],
		"publisher":"John Wiley & Sons",
		"publishedDate":"2009-02-09",
		"pageCount":840,
		"printType":"BOOK",
		"thumbnail":"http://bks5.books.google.com.au/books?id=...",
		"language":"en",
		"link":"http://books.google.com.au/books?id=..."
	},

	...

]

Advanced Usage

The search method optionally accepts an options object as the second argument. See below for an overview of the available options.

var books = require('google-books-search');

var options = {
	key: "YOUR API KEY",
	field: 'title',
	offset: 0,
	limit: 10,
	type: 'books',
	order: 'relevance',
	lang: 'en'
};

books.search("Professional JavaScript for Web Developers", options)
.then(function(results) {
	console.log(results);
})
.catch(function(error) {
	console.log(error);
});

Options

key : Your Google API key (Optional)
field : Search in a specified field (title, author, publisher, subject or isbn) (Optional)
offset : The position in the collection at which to start the list of results (Default: 0)
limit : The maximum number of results to return (Max 40) (Defult: 10)
type : Restrict results to books or magazines (Default: all)
order : Order results by relevance or newest (Default: relevance)
lang : Restrict results to a specified language (two-letter ISO-639-1 code) (Default: en)

For more info please see the Google Books API documentation

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Last updated on 11 Jun 2015

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