Application Programming Interface (API)

Endpoints

Endpoint: /authors

Formats: Atom, XML

Description: List all authors (20 items)

Parameters:

• letter: display the authors with ... as the first letter of their name
• born: authors born in ...
• death: author who dies in ...
• lang: language of the author
• order: normally from A to Z, use desc to reverse order

Endpoint: /authors/top

Formats: Atom, XML

Description: List top authors (20 items)

Parameters:

• letter: display the authors with ... as the first letter of their name
• born: authors born in ...
• death: author who dies in ...
• lang: language of the author

Endpoint: /authors/recent

Formats: Atom, XML

Description: List recent authors (20 items)

Parameters:

• letter: display the authors with ... as the first letter of their name
• born: authors born in ...
• death: author who dies in ...
• lang: language of the author

Endpoint: /author/:id/books

Formats: Atom, XML

Description: List all books for an author (id)

Parameters: Same as /books

 

Endpoint: /author/:id/books/top

Formats: Atom, XML

Description: List top books for an author (id)

Parameters: Same as /books/top

 

Endpoint: /author/:id/books/recent

Formats: Atom, XML, RSS

Description: List recent books for an author (id)

Parameters: Same as /books/recent

Legacy XML view

This is considered deprecated and won't be maintained anymore.

<author id="204">
  <name>Orwell, George</name>
  <birth>1903</birth>
  <death>1950</death>
  <language>en</language>
  <books>56</books>
  <downloads>22266</downloads>
  <biography>
    <p>Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by the pen name George Orwell, was 
    an English author and journalist. Noted as a novelist, critic, political and cultural commentator, 
    Orwell is among the most widely admired English-language essayists of the 20th century. He
    is best known for two novels critical of totalitarianism in general, and Stalinism in particular: 
    Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. Both were written and published toward the end of his life.</p>
    <p>Source: Wikipedia</p>
  </biography>
</author>