I want my users to set their previously read books in my app.
Is there any database with easily accessible API where I can get up-to-date book titles?
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1The movies part of your question would be a duplicate of opendata.stackexchange.com/questions/1594/… so I edit your question to focus on books, hope you are OK with it :-) – Nicolas Raoul Jan 9 '15 at 5:34
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Worldcat.org is one such site /DB. – Deer Hunter Jan 9 '15 at 7:16
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because they don't have every book archived. you can join and then add the book to the archive....DO IT! – albert♦ Jan 9 '15 at 22:01
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we have A LOT of books but not all of them. Our users are constantly adding more items to the database. Hopefully we will succeed to collect all books in the near future. – teeparty Jan 10 '15 at 17:01
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@albert EnJayz so both of your database is open for public, user can add records both to your database, do you sync outpan <-> openlibrary back and forth, that would make much sense from user perspective? – János Jan 10 '15 at 18:43
Open library has a goal of one page for every book, and has the data you seek.
It's run by the internet archive.
The British Library has a Linked Data API to the British National Bibliography (BNB): http://www.bl.uk/bibliographic/datafree.html
Examples of how to use the API can be found here:
