Tools/books/book_by_isbn

books/book_by_isbn

Resolve one or more books by ISBN into normalized bibliographic data.

0.1 credits / call ($0.0001)
charged on success

What it does

Returns normalized bibliographic data for books identified by ISBN: title, authors, publishers, publish date, number of pages, subjects, and cover image URLs.

Primary use cases

  • Looking up a book from a scanned or typed ISBN.
  • Enriching a catalog entry with publisher and cover data.

Good to know

Pass bibkeys as one or more comma-separated ISBN keys in the form "ISBN:0451526538". Both ISBN-10 and ISBN-13 work.

Parameters

bibkeysstringrequired

Comma-separated ISBN keys, each "ISBN:<number>" (e.g. "ISBN:0451526538").

books/book_by_isbn — Faro