ISBN from words throttling about isbnlib HOT 5 CLOSED

Thanks! I will consider your suggestion in a further version.

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Meanwhile, I suggest you use goom("your words")[0]['ISBN-13'].

By the way, probably this is much better than a general search!

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I tried using goom as suggested and it seems to work quite well, however, sometimes piping the returned isbn to meta fails. For example:

# goom returns correct isbn 9788579308529
>>> isbn=goom("Manual de persuasão do FBI Karlins, Marvin; Shafer, Jack ")[0]['ISBN-13'] 
>>> meta(isbn)
{}

I realise I can just use the metadata from goom(...)[0] in this instance but why does meta() return an empty map, given both functions call the same gbooks endpoint? 😕 Am I missing something?

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Despite being the same service, the calls are different and different database indexes are used to select the relevant items for each call (this is the usual procedure!). And since these databases are not in a completely consistent state, you get inconsistent results!

You can test this by enter in your browser:

• https://www.googleapis.com/books/v1/volumes?q=Manual%20de%20persuasão%20do%20FBI%20Karlins&fields=items/volumeInfo(title,authors,publisher,publishedDate,language,industryIdentifiers)&maxResults=10
• https://www.googleapis.com/books/v1/volumes?q=isbn:9788579308529&fields=items/volumeInfo(title,subtitle,authors,publisher,publishedDate,language,industryIdentifiers)&maxResults=1

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It's strange that the same endpoint can return different data based on which query params are used but this is clearly an inconsistency on google books api, rather than isbnlib.

My original issue has been resolved by using goom so feel free to close this. I still think providing the API key to isbn_from_words() could be a nice improvement for the future though. 👍

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