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API Help

Some of the data from Unglue.it is avaiable via a JSON API. You will need a key and username to be able to use the API.

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Ebook Widgets

You don't need an API key to embed Ebook (HTML) widgets.

Here's a widget that displays Unglue.it's featured ebook - it changes most every day! https://unglue.it/api/widget/featured/. Copy/paste this into your site:
If your website doesn't allow javascript (wordpress blogs, for example) you can use the no-script version. Copy/paste this into your site:
featured book cover
Today's Free Ebook at Unglue.it
Here's a sample widget for the book Riverwatch with ISBN 9780743480406: https://unglue.it/api/widget/9780743480406/. Copy/paste this into your site:

Basic API info

Available Resources (JSON)

Resources on this list can be accessed via https://unglue.it/api/v1/{resource_on_list}/?format=json&api_key={your_api_key}&username={your_username} .

Works can be ordered by how often they've been favorited; append &order_by=num_wishes (ascending) or &order_by=-num_wishes (descending).

Free Ebooks by ISBN

With an API key, you can check if there's a free ebook for any ISBN. ISBNs can be 10 or 13 digits, and can include dashes. This service returns all free-licensed ebooks for a work associated with an ISBN, and for each ebook includes information about file type, rights, and the provider hosting the file.

For example, here's how to get a list of ebook files for "Homeland".

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Identifier Resolution

Here's how to get use the api to find related identifiers:

    Do a query on your identifier.

    Here's how to get identifiers for an isbn:

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    In addition to 'isbn', you can use 'goog' if you have a google books id, 'doab' for DOAB handles (like '20.500.12854/97310'), 'doi' for Digital Object identifiers (like '10.3390/books978-3-0365-6176-9', and 'oclc' for oclc numbers.

    Now you'll have URIs for an unglue.id work id and (possibly) one or more unglue.it edition ids.

  • Use the work id's (or the edition ids if you're feeling selective) to find all the associated identifiers.:

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OPDS Catalog Feeds

We have a basic implementation of OPDS feeds. You don't need a key to use them. The starting point is https://unglue.it/api/opds/. Use the page parameter to page through the results.

Examples:

filtered by format
https://unglue.it/api/opds/epub/
filtered by license
https://unglue.it/api/opds/by-sa/
filtered by title search
https://unglue.it/api/opds/s.open/
filtered by keyword
https://unglue.it/api/opds/kw.fiction/
filtered by ungluer
https://unglue.it/api/opds/@eric/
filtered by having a Project Gutenberg or DOAB identifier (doab, gtbg)
https://unglue.it/api/opds/doab/-gtbg/?page=1

There's also an OPDS record available for every work on unglue.it. For example, requesting, https://unglue.it/api/opds/all/?work=13950 get you to the web page or opds record for A Christmas Carol.

ONIX Catalog Feeds

There is an ONIX 3.0 feed corresponding to every facet of our free ebook lists. You don't need a key to use them. There is a maximum of 100 books per result you can change with the max parameter. For example, here are the first twenty CC BY-ND-ND licensed books available in EPUB. Pages of 30 records each are available via the page parameter. Here's the first page of books from the Directory of Open Access Books.

There's also an ONIX record available for every free ebook on unglue.it. For example, here is Issues in Open Research Data.

Identifiers with Content type negotiation

There's a URI to identify every work used in OPDS feeds. HTTP content negotiation is used for these ids, so requesting application/atom+xml;profile=opds-catalog;kind=acquisition for https://unglue.it/api/id/work/13950/ get you to the web page or opds record for A Christmas Carol. requesting text/xml gets you the onix record. Otherwise, you get the normal html page.