Book by ISBN

A book edition by ISBN-10 or ISBN-13 from Open Library: title, subtitle, publish date, publishers, places, ISBNs, LCCN, OCLC, pages, format, languages, series, contributors, subjects, Dewey and LC classes, identifiers (Goodreads, LibraryThing...), covers, first sentence, contributors with roles, table of contents, classifications, Internet Archive id and link (ocaid), authors, the work (description, subjects, first publish date) and readers' rating.

Every response includes credits_used: the credits this call cost.

Parameters

Every endpoint also takes fresh, raw, fields (see lean responses and caching).

Example

curl "https://api.api.sh/books/v1/isbn?isbn=9780140328721" \
  -H "x-api-key: $APISH_KEY"

import os, requests

res = requests.get(
    "https://api.api.sh/books/v1/isbn",
    params={"isbn": "9780140328721"},
    headers={"x-api-key": os.environ["APISH_KEY"]},
    timeout=120,
)
res.raise_for_status()
data = res.json()

const url = new URL("https://api.api.sh/books/v1/isbn");
url.searchParams.set("isbn", "9780140328721");

const res = await fetch(url, { headers: { "x-api-key": process.env.APISH_KEY } });
if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`${res.status} ${await res.text()}`);
const data = await res.json();

Response

A JSON object with the fields described above, plus raw (the source's own data), cached, fetched_at and credits_used. Errors return {"success": false, "error": "…"} with the HTTP status (see errors). A lookup that ran but found nothing (404) costs the price above; refused calls and errors on our side are free (what's charged).