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PHP Google Books API: Search for books using Google Books API

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cgooglebooksapi 1.0.4BSD License5PHP 5, Searching, Web services
Description 

Author

Mohammed Asad

This class can search for books using Google Books API.

It takes an array of optuons and sends HTTP requests to Google Books API Web server using either file_get_contents or curl.

The class retrieves and decodes the results and store it in an array that lists the found books title, authors, publisher, categories, ISBN and thumbnail URL.

The search parameters include the book title, categories, start index, results limit, and get book details.

Innovation Award
PHP Programming Innovation award nominee
October 2016
Number 7

Prize: One downloadable copy of Komodo IDE		 Google Books is a well known service provided by Google that indexes a large number of books that were scanned, so users can search them by title, author, and even their contents.

This class provides an interface to the Google Books API to perform searches for books indexed on Google Books.

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Details
This class is created in a good intention to fetch google books api without using any google auth credentials
Hence, its accuracy is 70%. Well, it also has limitations based on the google,as it can fetch only 40 at a time.
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  • SimpleBookSearchForm
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Files folder imagecgooglebooksAPi (2 files, 2 directories)
Accessible without login Plain text file README.txt Doc. Documentation

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  Accessible without login Plain text file LICENSE Lic. License text
  Accessible without login Plain text file README.txt Doc. Documentation

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  Accessible without login Plain text file simpleWebForm.php Example Example script

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