Search books with Google Books API

[dilon_perera]

Hi Community,

Thought to share a video of how you can search books with the Google Books API!

Video :

Search Google Books.mp4

API Details :

Volume: list  |  Google Books APIs  |  Google Developers

Hope this helps!

Thank you!

Have a great day!

[rfaienza]

can you do one where you can add the book you searched into a record or a list of some sort so you place the books into a list

[dilon_perera]

External collection

Hi @rfaienza, You can add a record to the books collection with the created list in the previous screen. In the books collection create a relationship with lists so a book can have one listing and a listing can many books. Also add some other properties to store the info of the book such as texts for title, desc; images for book image etc… Also create a number property for store the book id like book_id because it’s important. Now you cannot use a checkbox here because the list is a external …

[rfaienza]

I ran into another problem while trying this. Everytime a book is created I noticed the volume ID doesn’t transfer over into the book colllection but the other information does such as book title, book authors etc.?