Open Library's CoverStore API information is here:
   https://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/api/covers

kc


On 11/5/13 7:13 AM, Adam Wead wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Anyone have some good resources about tools for gathering book cover images?  I'm building that into our next catalog update, which uses Blacklight, but I'm not necessarily looking for Rails-only approaches.  My questions are more general:
>
> What sources are out there?  (ex. Google Books, amazon)
>
> Making it work?
> I'm trying out Google Books at the moment, just making a call to their API.  This can be asynchronously and loaded after the rest of the page, or cached, perhaps even store the url in solr or a database table?
>
> Tools?
> I am trying out a Google Books gem[1], which is just a wrapper for the api.
>
> Other thoughts?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> …adam
>
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> [1] https://github.com/zeantsoi/GoogleBooks
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