Wait- what would be the point of their API if I couldn't run anything on a
domain other than nytimes.com?
Thanks everyone for the pointers.  I'll get back to it!
If I can pull the first 5 titles from the different best seller lists, and
then using the ISBN build a link to those titles in the library catalog, I
will have made something useful which I will gladly share back to the list.

On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Godmar Back <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Are you trying to run this inside a webpage served from a domain other than
> nytimes.com?
> If so, you'd need to use JSONP, which a cursory examination of their API
> documentation reveals they do not support. So, you need to use a proxy.
>
> Here's one:
> $ cat hardcover.php
> <?
> $cb = @$_GET['callback'];
>
> $json = file_get_contents('
>
> http://api.nytimes.com/svc/books/v2/lists/hardcover-fiction.json?&api-key=xxxx
> '
> );
> header("Content-Type: text/javascript");
> echo $cb . '(' . $json . ')';
>
> ?>
>
> Install it on your webserver, then change your JavaScript code to refer to
> it using callback=?.
>
> For instance, if you installed it on
> http://libx.lib.vt.edu/services/nytimes/hardcover.php
> then you would be using the URL
> http://libx.lib.vt.edu/services/nytimes/hardcover.php?callback=?
> (.getJSON will replace the ? with a suitably generated function name).
>
>  - Godmar
>
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Nate Hill <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> > Anybody out there using the NY times best seller API to do stuff on their
> > library websites?
> > I can't figure out what's wrong with my code here.
> > Data is returned as "null"; I can't seem to parse the response with
> jQuery.
> > Any help would be supercool.
> > I removed the API key - my code doesn't actually contain 'xxxx'.
> > Here's the jQuery:
> >
> > jQuery(document).ready(function(){
> >    $(function(){
> >                    //json request to new york times
> >                    $.getJSON('
> >
> >
> http://api.nytimes.com/svc/books/v2/lists/hardcover-fiction.json?&api-key=xxxx
> > ',
> >
> >                    function(data) {
> >                        //loop through the results with the following
> > function
> >                        $.each(data.results.book_details,
> function(i,item){
> >                        //turn the title into a variable
> >                        var bookTitle = item.title;
> >                        $('#container').append('<p>'+bookTitle+'</p>');
> >
> >            });
> >        });
> >    });
> > });
> >
> >
> > Here's a snippet of the JSON response:
> >
> > {
> >    "status": "OK",
> >    "copyright": "Copyright (c) 2011 The New York Times Company.  All
> Rights
> > Reserved.",
> >    "num_results": 35,
> >    "last_modified": "2011-09-23T12:00:29-04:00",
> >    "results": [{
> >        "list_name": "Hardcover Fiction",
> >        "display_name": "Hardcover Fiction",
> >        "updated": "WEEKLY",
> >        "bestsellers_date": "2011-09-17",
> >        "published_date": "2011-10-02",
> >        "rank": 1,
> >        "rank_last_week": 0,
> >        "weeks_on_list": 1,
> >        "asterisk": 0,
> >        "dagger": 0,
> >        "isbns": [{
> >            "isbn10": "0399157786",
> >            "isbn13": "9780399157783"
> >        }],
> >        "book_details": [{
> >            "title": "NEW YORK TO DALLAS",
> >            "description": "An escaped child molester pursues Lt. Eve
> > Dallas; by Nora Roberts, writing pseudonymously.",
> >            "contributor": "by J. D. Robb",
> >            "author": "J D Robb",
> >            "contributor_note": "",
> >            "price": 27.95,
> >            "age_group": "",
> >            "publisher": "Putnam",
> >            "primary_isbn13": "9780399157783",
> >            "primary_isbn10": "0399157786"
> >        }],
> >        "reviews": [{
> >            "book_review_link": "",
> >            "first_chapter_link": "",
> >            "sunday_review_link": "",
> >            "article_chapter_link": ""
> >        }]
> >
> >
> > --
> > Nate Hill
> > [log in to unmask]
> > http://www.natehill.net
> >
>



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