I'm sure pretty it's because it's letting you know the book is in progress. I'm not sure there's a way to filter them out though.
LibriVox API Discussion Thread
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Haworth's, T. Tembarom, Discoveries among Ninevah, The Cloister and the Hearth, DR-Little Men, DR-The Story Girl
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Haworth's, T. Tembarom, Discoveries among Ninevah, The Cloister and the Hearth, DR-Little Men, DR-The Story Girl
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I assume it's because it's based on projects, not completed projects. We know it's not perfect, and it isn't that we don't care about listeners, we just ran out of money to improve the API
It is, however, possible to use it for apps etc. Many outsiders do.
But LV is successful because we concentrate on releasing audiobooks of books that are public domain and making them available on Archive and in our catalogue. And whether 1 person listens to a particular book or a million does not make 1 book succesful and the other a failure
And any frills that are possible with our existing software can be done by anyone who wants to do them. But whether they do or don't do is up to them , we have still done our prime directive
Anne
It is, however, possible to use it for apps etc. Many outsiders do.
But LV is successful because we concentrate on releasing audiobooks of books that are public domain and making them available on Archive and in our catalogue. And whether 1 person listens to a particular book or a million does not make 1 book succesful and the other a failure
And any frills that are possible with our existing software can be done by anyone who wants to do them. But whether they do or don't do is up to them , we have still done our prime directive
Anne
Somebody in this post earlier mentioned to check for "url_iarchive" (in the http request with extended=1 query) tag if its null/empty that means the book isnt finished as its not uploaded to archives
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It would be two different books with unique ids. There are multiple versions of the same book in the same language, and they each have unique ids. For example search the catalog for: Anne of Green Gables, Pride and Prejudice, etc.
Hi, I just started trying to use the API for a language learning app. I have some questions.
How is it possible to search by genre - every time I try this I get a database error response.
Is it possible to filter the results by language?
Thanks for any help. It's a great website and API
How is it possible to search by genre - every time I try this I get a database error response.
Is it possible to filter the results by language?
Thanks for any help. It's a great website and API

Did you get the genres working? Also did you get the full download working. Interested myself - fellow android.danielius wrote: ↑November 19th, 2019, 1:11 pmHey im an Android developer working on an app. How come https://librivox.org/rss/12349 redirects you to forums ? Got an error trying to download everything into my own database since I seem to be getting errors when trying to access the API https://librivox.org/api/feed/audiobooks?genre=66 I use the rss links to get the tracks download url's

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Via Twitter, for the record:
There should be a language declaration in RSS feeds, it is there but commented out ..
<!--<language>project element=lang.code</language>-->
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Boring works 30-70 minutes long: Insomnia Collection 5
Adult dog stories: Best Dog Stories
Gospel of Matthew: Matthew, YLT