APIs and easy linking page
Abby wrote up a page on LibraryThing's APIs and "easy linking" methods. With luck, it will give these important features more prominence.
I particularly want to plug easy-linking, which is particularly great for bloggers—letting you reference books without doing a search on LT first. Basically, you can link to a work like these:
The latter is very flexible, you can even do something like
And it guesses well what you mean—in this case Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
I particularly want to plug easy-linking, which is particularly great for bloggers—letting you reference books without doing a search on LT first. Basically, you can link to a work like these:
The latter is very flexible, you can even do something like
And it guesses well what you mean—in this case Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
3 Comments:
Brilliant, thanks Tim and Abby - I have the original blog posts bookmarked for reference, but this is better :-)
The thingISBN is excellent, but can it be made to go to something other than Tim's library if it does not match up with a work?
Best,
David, WIT.
Done. It goes to the search page now.
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