Google Book API integration for fetching the information for google books and magazines and book shelves also filter them. You can eaisly get most of the elements for a particular book and magazine or the books of a book shelf from the google book search. like :-(title,sub title,preview link,authors,publisher,publish date,buylink,downloadlink,version,ISBN information,ratings,...many more..Also you can get the google checkout link for that book/magazine
b=GoogleBook::Book.new(:api_key => "YOUR_GOOOGLE_API_KEY")
b.search("Name of the book you want to search",type) #type should be a number
- type = 1 ===> intitle: Returns results where the text following this keyword is found in the title.
- type = 2 ===> inauthor: Returns results where the text following this keyword is found in the author.
- type = 3 ====> inpublisher: Returns results where the text following this keyword is found in the publisher.
- type = 4 ===> subject: Returns results where the text following this keyword is listed in the category list of the volume.
- type = 5 ====>isbn: Returns results where the text following this keyword is the ISBN number.
- ltype = 6 ====> ccn: Returns results where the text following this keyword is the Library of Congress Control Number.
- type = 7 ===> oclc: Returns results where the text following this keyword is the Online Computer Library Center number.
- type = 8 ===> Returns the book which can be downloadable
b=GoogleBook::Book.new(:api_key => "YOUR_GOOOGLE_API_KEY")
b.search("keyword or book name",1)
b.book_info.get_all_subtitles # to get all the subtitles of your search book
b.total_count #get the search results count
you can then create a instance of books which was getting by search by following ways
b=GoogleBook::Book.new(:api_key => "YOUR_GOOOGLE_API_KEY")
b.search("Name of the book you want to search",1)
b.books #create the instance of all the books of your search
b.books.first.get_title #get the first book title
b.books.first.get_sub_title#get the first book sub title
b.books.first.authors #get the first book authors
b.books.first.text_snippet_description #get the first book text snippet description
b.books.first.publish_date #get the first book published date
b.books.first.publisher #get the first book publisher name
b.books.first.rating #get the rating of the book
b.books.first.total_rating #get the total rating count of the book
b.books.first.version #get the version of the book
b.books.first.preview_link #get the first book preview link
b.books.first.info_link #get the first book information
b.price #get the book price with currency
b.books.first.thumbnail_image #get the first book thumbnail image
b.books.first.small_thumbnail_link #get the first book thumbnail image
b.books.first.google_checkout_link #get the first book direct google checkout
b.books.first.ISBN_info #isbn info for first book it will return hash like {:ISBN_10 => "778545"}
b=GoogleBook::Book.new(:api_key => "YOUR_GOOOGLE_API_KEY")
b.search('downloadable book name',8)
b.books.first.downloadable?#check whther the book is downloadable
b.books.first.buyable?#check whether the book is buyable
b.books.first.buy_link
b.books.first.download_link
b=GoogleBook::Book.new(:api_key => "YOUR_GOOOGLE_API_KEY")
b.search('downloadable book name',9) #type is 9 for only magazines
b.books #create the magaize instances
b.books.first.magazine?
so on..now get all the info(title,subtitle,author,preview....) of each and every magazine instanaces as stated above
- filter_type = 1 free-ebooks - Only returns results that are free Google eBooks.
- filter_type = 2 paid-ebooks - Only returns results that are Google eBooks with a price.
- filter_type = 3 full - Only returns results where all of the text is viewable.
- filter_type = 4 ebooks - Only returns results that are Google eBooks, paid or free. Examples of non-eBooks would be publisher content that is available in limited preview and not for sale, or magazines.
filter_book=GoogleBook::Book.new(:api_key => "YOUR_GOOOGLE_API_KEY")
filter_book.filter('ruby language', 1)#here one is filter_type as defined above
Now create all books instance as usual
filter_book.books
If you select your filter as free ebook then it will be downloadable and buyable<code>filter_book.books.first.downloadable?#check whther the book is downloadable</code><br/>
<code>filter_book.books.first.buyable?#check whether the book is buyable</code><br/>
<code>filter_book.books.first.buy_link</code><br/>
<code>filter_book.books.first.download_link</code>
bs=BookShelves.new("GOGLE_BOOKS_USER_ID")
bs.bookshelves #all the book shelves of that user in a instance
bs.bookshelves.first.title #the title of the books shelve first
bs.bookshelves.first.self_link #the title of the books shelve first
bs.bookshelves.first.books#get all the books of that book shelves
bs.bookshelves.first.books.first.get_title
Now you can access all the methods of those books(ex:-get_title,preview_link....etc)