Openlibrary seems promising, so I'd start there. I immediately thought of
NoveList (an EBSCO product, so you'd need special permission and/or contact
them directly) or Goodreads (who are apparently not issuing API keys
anymore). There are a few Goodreads datasets floating out there from before
they stopped supporting the API, though.
Sounds interesting, good luck!
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On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 10:14 PM Ray Voelker <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I was actually just looking at the open library stuff today a little bit.
>
> I think they have bulk downloads (and an API) that may include things like
> descriptions for works.
>
> https://openlibrary.org/works/OL45883W.json
>
> On Mon, Aug 23, 2021, 9:30 PM Ralph LeVan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > I've been asked to provide searching on book blurbs. Specifically,
> search
> > for books that had blurbs by a particular person.
> >
> > Anyone have ideas on how to get that information? I'm afraid we're
> looking
> > at Amazon or scraping the publishers themselves. Any help would be
> > appreciated!
> >
> > Ralph
> >
> > Ralph LeVan
> > OCLC Research, retired
> >
>
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