Comment 33 for bug 236947

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aaron r (arubinstein) wrote : Re: search API improvements

1. I'm sorry for not being totally clear. It looks like user-added cover images are returned with a "/get" query using an OpenLibrary #.

Here's an example query that returns the coverimage:
http://openlibrary.org/api/get?key=/b/OL7168569M&prettyprint=true&text=true

When a title with a user-added image comes up in a query using the expanded format, the coverimage information is not included. After I posted this question, I noticed that the results in expanded format are also missing the "isbn_10" that is returned with a /get query for a specific title. Since those seem to be the identifiers used for the jpegs that were gathered from google books (I assume), I've been using them to generate urls for the cover art. I guess this is all moot if you're able to add the image urls directly into the index, which would be great.

2. Too bad... I'm working for an organization that's part of the OCA and will be contributing a large amount of books in one particular language. When the books are submitted, we'll make sure that the language code is included in the metadata. It would be great if there was a way to filter on language for that reason. I hate to ask for special favors but it seems like something that in an ideal world could be very useful for others as well.