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sanjeev40084
sanjeev40084

Reputation: 9617

Book Database Data

I am creating a database which will contain information about book. (title, author, description, edition etc). Is there anyway i can download book data from the web so that i can insert in my database. I want database to have between 500 - 1000 books information. The database is in Sql Server.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 4659

Answers (4)

cbeer
cbeer

Reputation: 1231

The Internet Archive offers Open Library bulk exports in a variety of formats (MARC, primarily). If you are looking for records for specific books, you might look at LibraryThing's API.

Upvotes: 0

Kdeveloper
Kdeveloper

Reputation: 13819

Most well known book content API's are from Amazon.com and more recent from Google (Amazon's API can often seen been republished on the web):

Amazon Content API program

Google Book Search API

To see what is allowed with the Amazon API please see:

Amazon Content API agreement

Some excelent info on other providers can be found here: Code4lib: Using Book Data Providers to Improve Services to Patrons

Upvotes: 1

Conrad Frix
Conrad Frix

Reputation: 52645

If you are just looking for sample data you can use the pubs db that comes with ms sql server

Upvotes: 0

Thomas O
Thomas O

Reputation: 6220

You could source data from websites like Amazon.com - they have APIs for this. But, you may not be able to redistribute the data without permission from Amazon. There's nothing stopping you from getting public domain data from a government organisation like the Library of Congress - they probably have it somewhere.

Upvotes: 0

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