# Search books with Google Books API

**URL:** <https://forum.adalo.com/t/search-books-with-google-books-api/27617>\
**Category:** Resources & Tutorials\
**Created:** [May 25, 2022, 2:55pm UTC](https://forum.adalo.com/t/search-books-with-google-books-api/27617 "2022-05-25T14:55:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Dilon](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.adalo.com/dilon/32/39815_2.png) [@Dilon](https://forum.adalo.com/u/Dilon)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2022, 2:55pm UTC](https://forum.adalo.com/t/search-books-with-google-books-api/27617/1 "2022-05-25T14:55:45Z")

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Hi Community,

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

Video :

> **[Search Google Books.mp4](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GMfiMahgO6SpxhDvXiZVeK7By9_hYwvk/view?usp=drivesdk)**
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> Google Drive file.

API Details :

> **[Volume: list  |  Google Books APIs  |  Google Developers](https://developers.google.com/books/docs/v1/reference/volumes/list)**

Hope this helps!

Thank you!

Have a great day!

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**Author:** ![rfaienza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/22d042/32.png) [@rfaienza](https://forum.adalo.com/u/rfaienza)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2024, 8:34pm UTC](https://forum.adalo.com/t/search-books-with-google-books-api/27617/2 "2024-01-28T20:34:57Z")

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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

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**Author:** ![Dilon](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.adalo.com/dilon/32/39815_2.png) [@Dilon](https://forum.adalo.com/u/Dilon)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2024, 1:21pm UTC](https://forum.adalo.com/t/search-books-with-google-books-api/27617/3 "2024-01-29T13:21:18Z")

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> [@External collection](https://forum.adalo.com/t/external-collection/44930/2):
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> 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 …

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**Author:** ![rfaienza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/22d042/32.png) [@rfaienza](https://forum.adalo.com/u/rfaienza)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2024, 6:06am UTC](https://forum.adalo.com/t/search-books-with-google-books-api/27617/4 "2024-01-30T06:06:46Z")

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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.?