the new feedbooks api
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Feedbooks’ Application Programming Interface
Thousands of books, just a click away!
Benoît LARROQUE
Contents
Feedbooks
API
Using the API
Feedbooks
Who are we?
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 !
Application Programming Interface
How to access Feedbooks?
Why an API ?
Semantically equals
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
Using the API
Gett ing i t working!
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: [email protected]
Hadrien GARDEUR: [email protected]