the new feedbooks api
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Feedbooks’ Application Programming Interface
Thousands of books, just a click away!
Benoît LARROQUE
benoit.larroque@feedbooks.com
Feedbooks
French company founded in 2007
Distributing free content to users
Read public domain books
Create your own books
Get the latest news in any formats
Now creating a device !
Basic idea about FB API
API v2 released the 07/04/08
Aim to be a RESTful API
CRUD Actions
Create POST
Read GET
Update PUT
Delete DELETE
HTML: http://www.feedbooks.com/books/recent
XML : http://www.feedbooks.com/books/recent.xml
Endpoints (at the moment) Discover /books/search
/books/top
/books/recent
/type/:type/books
/type/:type/books/top
/type/:type/books/recent
/user/:id/downloads
/user/:id/favorites
/recommendations
Share /userbooks/search
News /user/:id/subscriptions
The book node
Basic object
Got an id attribute
Metainformation are provided in Dublin Core
Download URLs under files node
Documentation
A full documentation and a simple implementation will be
available soon
Expected for mid July
What do you need?
A way to query the server and download Books.
Wrapping around libcurl is fine in C/C++
Parsing responses
Using expat is easy in C/C++
High level languages like PHP/Ruby… often do provide
these by default
Thank you for your attention
Questions ?
Contact :
Benoît LARROQUE: benoit.larroque@feedbooks.com
Hadrien GARDEUR: hadrien.gardeur@feedbooks.com
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