Google Books
App · Research & Academia · 1 action
Look up book metadata, including titles, authors, descriptions, ISBNs, and ratings, from the Google Books catalog.
Get book
Look up a book's metadata (title, authors, description, ISBNs, and more) from Google Books using its volume ID.
Inputs
- Volume ID
volume_idtextRequired - The Google Books volume ID. It's the value after '/books/edition/_/' or the 'id=' parameter in a Google Books URL, for example, 'zyTCAlFPjgYC'.
Outputs
authorslist- List of author names.
average_ratingnumber- Average rating (1-5), if available.
categorieslist- Subject categories.
descriptiontext- Book description / synopsis.
idtext- The volume ID.
info_linktext- Link to the book on Google Books.
isbn_10text- ISBN-10, if available.
isbn_13text- ISBN-13, if available.
page_countnumber- Number of pages.
published_datetext- Publication date.
publishertext- Publisher name.
subtitletext- Book subtitle, if any.
thumbnailtext- Cover thumbnail image URL.
titletext- Book title.
Example output
{
"authors": [
"David A. Vise",
"Mark Malseed"
],
"average_rating": 3.5,
"categories": [
"Business & Economics"
],
"description": "The definitive account of Google's rise.",
"id": "zyTCAlFPjgYC",
"info_link": "https://books.google.com/books?id=zyTCAlFPjgYC",
"isbn_10": "0553902202",
"isbn_13": "9780553902204",
"page_count": 336,
"published_date": "2005-11-15",
"publisher": "Delacorte Press",
"subtitle": null,
"thumbnail": "http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zyTCAlFPjgYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1",
"title": "The Google Story"
}