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node-google-books-search-promise
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Fork of google-books-search which makes use of promises instead of callbacks. Makes use of util.promisify
; requires Node v8+
npm install --save node-google-books-search-promise
or yarn
yarn add node-google-books-search-promise
Search for books matching the specified query.
const books = require('node-google-books-search-promise');
books.search('Professional JavaScript for Web Developers').then(({results}) => {
console.log(results);
})
.catch(e => {
console.log(e);
});
Or using await
const books = require('node-google-books-search-promise');
const {results} = await book.search('Professional JavaScript for Web Developers');
console.log(results);
Returns an array of JSON objects. For example;
[
{
"id": "9KJJYFIss_wC",
"title": "Professional Javascript For Web Developers 2Nd Ed",
"subtitle": "...",
"authors":[
"Nicholas C. Zakas"
],
"publisher": "John Wiley & Sons",
"publishedDate": "2009-02-09",
"description": "...",
"industryIdentifiers": [
{
"type": "ISSN",
"identifier": "..."
}
],
"pageCount": 840,
"printType": "BOOK",
"averageRating": "4",
"thumbnail": "http://bks5.books.google.com.au/books?id=...",
"images": {
"small": "http://...",
"medium": "http://...",
"large": "http://...",
"extraLarge": "http://...",
},
"language": "en",
"link": "http://books.google.com.au/books?id=..."
},
...
]
For a description of each value; see the Google Books API documentaion for volumes.
Lookup books by Volume ID.
books.lookup('9KJJYFIss_wC').then(function({result}) {
...
});
The options argument accepts an object with a key
field (your API key).
The search method optionally accepts an options object as the second argument. See below for an overview of the available options.
var books = require('node-google-books-search-promise');
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, response}) {
console.log(results);
});
Option | Description |
---|---|
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
FAQs
Fork of google-books-search to use promise instead of callback
The npm package node-google-books-search-promise receives a total of 0 weekly downloads. As such, node-google-books-search-promise popularity was classified as not popular.
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