discourse is a civilized discussion forum which can be used for forums, discussion, QA (Question and Answer) or mailing lists.

This plugin extends the discourse forum by adding integration with Google Books api.

• Search field in editor to search for books¹

• Plugin can be enabled selectively for specific categories²

• Book preview³

Installing this plugin with discourse is simple. Just add the following line in your app.yml file in /path/to/discourse/containers/app.yml

## Plugins go here
## see https://meta.discourse.org/t/19157 for details
hooks:
  after_code:
    - exec:
        cd: $home/plugins
        cmd:
          - git clone https://github.com/netdeamon/discourse-googlebooks.git

In order to make this plugin work, you need to add your api key and referrer for googlebooks api⁴. You can get these credentials from Google developers console. You need to enable the GoogleBooks api to get the api key.

1. Editor integration

2. Category Settings

3. Link to this post :-)

4. Settings page