LibriVox API Discussion Thread
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Hello!
Thx for the great work so far , I am currently developing an Android-app which is using the new API and have some minor changes that would help me to get stuff parsed to the screen as fast as possible .
Is it possible to include another two fields, one that gives a link to the album-cover in the xml (<url_cover>) and a second that includes the link to the playlist (<url_playlist>http://archive.org/download/avenger_1207_librivox/avenger_1207_librivox_64kb.m3u</url_playlist>)?
It also seems that genres are not working so far, is this going to be included in the next updates?
It also seems that the old API (http://librivox.org/newcatalog/latestworks.xml?offset=0&limit=50) is not working since today. Will it be up again or does the new one now totally replace it?
Michael
Thx for the great work so far , I am currently developing an Android-app which is using the new API and have some minor changes that would help me to get stuff parsed to the screen as fast as possible .
Is it possible to include another two fields, one that gives a link to the album-cover in the xml (<url_cover>) and a second that includes the link to the playlist (<url_playlist>http://archive.org/download/avenger_1207_librivox/avenger_1207_librivox_64kb.m3u</url_playlist>)?
It also seems that genres are not working so far, is this going to be included in the next updates?
It also seems that the old API (http://librivox.org/newcatalog/latestworks.xml?offset=0&limit=50) is not working since today. Will it be up again or does the new one now totally replace it?
Michael
Last edited by michaelmuenzer on September 6th, 2013, 8:44 am, edited 1 time in total.
I have no answer for you at the moment - there's a lot of work still going on, so please be patient. I think it unlikely, if the old API has already ceased functioning, that it will be brought into service again, but that is merely my conjecture.
Ruth
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Ok thx, just noted two more things
The readers-tag (<readers>) is also not yet present and the download-link of the tag <url_zip_file> seems not to be valid.
For instance "http://www.archive.org/download/Count of Monte Cristo_47_librivox_/Count of Monte Cristo_47_librivox_64kb_mp3.zip" is returned where the valid url seems to be "http://archive.org/download/countofmontecristo_1303_librivox/countofmontecristo_1303_librivox_64kb_mp3.zip"
Michael
The readers-tag (<readers>) is also not yet present and the download-link of the tag <url_zip_file> seems not to be valid.
For instance "http://www.archive.org/download/Count of Monte Cristo_47_librivox_/Count of Monte Cristo_47_librivox_64kb_mp3.zip" is returned where the valid url seems to be "http://archive.org/download/countofmontecristo_1303_librivox/countofmontecristo_1303_librivox_64kb_mp3.zip"
Michael
Reported, thank you
Ruth
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Hello,
This is my first time on this forum. I have been working on an iPad app with the old API until a few days ago when the old API is no longer available. I have since switched to the new API which seems to work well and with much cleaner XML syntax.
I would also like to make a request for a URL link to the book cover photo, to be included in the new API.
Potential bug: I have also tried to use the "fields={title,genres,authors}" option of the new API, and the result came back without the data for "genres" and I can only obtain "genres" with the "extended=1" option.
Thanks for all the good work with Librivox.
Marvin
This is my first time on this forum. I have been working on an iPad app with the old API until a few days ago when the old API is no longer available. I have since switched to the new API which seems to work well and with much cleaner XML syntax.
I would also like to make a request for a URL link to the book cover photo, to be included in the new API.
Potential bug: I have also tried to use the "fields={title,genres,authors}" option of the new API, and the result came back without the data for "genres" and I can only obtain "genres" with the "extended=1" option.
Thanks for all the good work with Librivox.
Marvin
The API is no longer on the dev server. Please see information on the new API at http://librivox.org/api/info
Ruth
Ruth
My LV catalogue page | RuthieG's CataBlog of recordings | Tweet: @RuthGolding
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If there are any critical fields missing, do let us know!
Jo
The main thing that it seems to lack from my point of view is a good way to get a listing of the most recent books. The "since" field is nice, and I can probably build something to work with that, but I don't see a way to request, for example, the 5 most recent books.
Also, I suppose that the RSS feeds haven't changed? Lots of them were missing reader / cover image information. I didn't look thoroughly to see if that had been added.
Also, I suppose that the RSS feeds haven't changed? Lots of them were missing reader / cover image information. I didn't look thoroughly to see if that had been added.
Working on iOS and Android apps for LibriVox. You can see the comments from the apps on our web site: LibriVox Audio Books
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Agree with that, it is almost impossible to get the most-recent books. Would be nice if the list is either sorted by date, an additional completion-field is added or I could specifiy the order with an additional parameter (&order="date-asc"). When thinking about different languages, maybe an additional query-parameter like &language="french" would also be convenient.
Is it also possible to add a field with the size (in bytes) of the zip-file to the audiobook-xml? (url_zip_size?)
I just noted that the fields-parameter is not working for http://librivox.org/api/feed/audiobooks/id/1939. Would also be good to reduce unnecessary information.
Is it also possible to add a field with the size (in bytes) of the zip-file to the audiobook-xml? (url_zip_size?)
I just noted that the fields-parameter is not working for http://librivox.org/api/feed/audiobooks/id/1939. Would also be good to reduce unnecessary information.
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Hello Jo san,
Catalog date:
Read by:
Book Coordinator:
Meta Coordinator
Proof Listener:
Cheers,
Masa
I think the following information should be included.knotyouraveragejo wrote:If there are any critical fields missing, do let us know!
Catalog date:
Read by:
Book Coordinator:
Meta Coordinator
Proof Listener:
Cheers,
Masa
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Hello,
I would love to have a field to indicate the popularity of a book as 'the number of times this book has been read.'
Alternately, this field could be normalized on some sort of scale, for example, from 0..100 -- a book could be on the on the top 20% most read.
Thanks,
Marvin
I would love to have a field to indicate the popularity of a book as 'the number of times this book has been read.'
Alternately, this field could be normalized on some sort of scale, for example, from 0..100 -- a book could be on the on the top 20% most read.
Thanks,
Marvin
Regarding the "Reader" information, anyhow, I think it would be great for apps - people ask me for that feature all the time. Right now, I think it is supposed to be included in the chapter data in the RSS feeds, which is fine, as many books have multiple readers. The problem is, for most of the books, the reader info is missing there. Of course, a field that gave the reader's name (for a solo work) or something like "Various" for a collaborative work would also be handy.
Working on iOS and Android apps for LibriVox. You can see the comments from the apps on our web site: LibriVox Audio Books