On 01/04/17 11:31, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
> Next week an API will become available at Open Library that provides
> their available books for an author based on their identifier.

great!

> What I have asked the OL is to provide their identifier per author,
> combined with the ISBN for an author.

what do you mean for "ISBN for an author"?

maybe you might be interested in this simple api wrapper[1] i made few
months ago. it combines OCLC Classify API[2] and the wikidata sparql to
get authors (and their viaf and wikidata id) from a book's ISBN.

example:

Concrete Island, JG Ballard
https://www.worldcat.org/title/concrete-island/oclc/934107293
ISBN-13 9780007287048

$ curl https://isbn-authors.herokuapp.com/api/v1/authors/9780007287048
[
  {
    "name": "Ballard, J. G., 1930-2009",
    "viaf": "9842556",
    "wikidata_id": "Q140201"
  }
]


(note: the example api is hosted on heroku free tier, and is quite slow)


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raffaele@docuver.se


[1] https://github.com/atomotic/isbn-authors
[2] http://classify.oclc.org/classify2/api_docs/index.html

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