Since I joined Google, I've been working on Book Search, our project to help
users discover what's inside all the world's books.
Today we are happy
to include the developer community in this historic effort with the announcement of two new
APIs:
An Embedded Viewer
API, which allows you to embed book previews on your site and control them
programmatically using JavaScript.
A robust Data
API, which allows you to access full-text search results and access with users' book
reviews, ratings, and individual My Library
collections.
By allowing anyone to integrate with the
complete Google Book Search index, we hope this broader community will find new ways to
connect users with books that are interesting and relevant to them.
To
learn more about the sites already using these APIs — including Books-A-Million,
Worldcat, and GoodReads — check out our post on the Book
Search Blog.
Or, if you want to dig right in, go straight to
our newly revamped developer
site.
