tips on posting an url and reading the results

Mike Bonner bonnmike at gmail.com
Fri Feb 3 09:58:59 EST 2012


Repost due to size.

On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 7:55 AM, Mike Bonner <bonnmike at gmail.com> wrote:

> Resend due to size bounce. *sigh*
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 7:51 AM, Mike Bonner <bonnmike at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Might read here http://code.google.com/apis/books/docs/v1/using.html for
>> info on the google book api. Depending on what you want to accomplish you
>> can go the auth key and user specific data route, or you can just use the
>> get method as in the following url below.  The response returned is NOT
>> html using this method and should be considerably easier to parse.  THis is
>> just one example.
>>
>> https://www.googleapis.com/books/v1/volumes?q=isbn:9784883194292
>>
>> Using your isbn with the volumes search you can
>>
>> put URL "https://www.googleapis.com/books/v1/volumes?q=isbn:9784883194292"
>> into myVar
>>
>> and myvar will contain:
>> #####Nevermind, not much there but the sample puts me over the size limit
>> for posting so /shrug
>>
>>
>> Should be much easier to parse. Didn't dig very deep so not sure if there
>> is a limit to the options you can use with a simple GET without auth.
>>
>> I'm sure amazon has a great api too.
>>
>>



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