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message 1: by Gregg (new)

Gregg (greggmarshall) | 105 comments How does this API do it's look up?

It appears to return a single book, even when the query is vague (e.g. 'Hound').

It also appears to fail when a complete title, returned from a look up via the ISBN or Goodreads ID, is used. My example is 'Pro Drupal Development: Learn How to Use the Content Management Framework to Create Powerful Customized Web Sites' returned 'Pro Drupal 7 Development, Third Edition'.

Using just 'Pro Drupal Development' returned another edition of the book, which is understandable.

The documentation suggests adding an author to better accuracy. In this case it wouldn't help since its the same author.


message 2: by Michael (new)

Michael Economy (michaeleconomy) I think it's more for title+author searches.


message 3: by Ettore (last edited Jan 20, 2012 02:55PM) (new)

Ettore Pasquini Gregg wrote: "How does this API do it's look up?

It appears to return a single book, even when the query is vague (e.g. 'Hound').

It also appears to fail when a complete title, returned from a look up via ..."


Gregg, from the API docs:

The book shown will be the most popular book that matches all the keywords in the input string.

So yes, one book is returned.


message 4: by Gregg (new)

Gregg (greggmarshall) | 105 comments I'll clean my glasses!

I know I read that and obviously it didn't sink in.


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