{"id":4496,"date":"2016-09-12T01:32:58","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T01:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.garysieling.com\/blog\/?p=4496"},"modified":"2016-09-12T01:32:58","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T01:32:58","slug":"get-books-speaker-open-library-api","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.garysieling.com\/blog\/get-books-speaker-open-library-api\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting a list of books for a speaker from the Open Library API in Python"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of a project I&#8217;ve been working on, I&#8217;m exploring using the Open Library API to get books someone has written. <\/p>\n<p>Their API gives you ISBNs (and many other identifiers), which you presumably can use against the Amazon Product API. It is a bit sensitive to extra tokens (e.g. titles and name prefixes), so you should update the regex to match what your data has in it.<\/p>\n<p>I save the results, for later processing &#8211; if the response is 66 bytes, it means nothing was found at all.<\/p>\n<pre lang=\"python\">\nauthor = author.split('(')[0]\nfilename = 'authors\/' + author + '.txt'\n\nif (not os.path.isfile(filename)):\n  author = re.sub(r'\\b(Dr|Professor|Alderman)\\b', r'', author.strip())\n     \nurl = 'http:\/\/openlibrary.org\/search.json?author=' + quote(author)\nhttpresponse = urlopen(url).read().decode('utf8')\nif (len(httpresponse) > 66):\n  f = open(filename, 'w')      \n  f.write(httpresponse)\n  f.close()\n<\/pre>\n<p>From manually inspecting a few of these, they seem to return everything (not paged), so this is a pretty simple API to use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Script to get books an author wrote from the Open Library API<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[447],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garysieling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4496"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garysieling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garysieling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garysieling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garysieling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.garysieling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garysieling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garysieling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garysieling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}