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A library to help on the search for books on google books api
A library to help on the search for books on google books api.
Querying books #
First of all, import the library:
import 'package:books_finder/books_finder.dart';
To query a book, just call the function queryBooks
:
final books = await queryBooks(
'twilight',
maxResults: 3,
printType: PrintType.books,
orderBy: OrderBy.relevance,
);
You can change a few parameters to make your query more specific:
- Set
langRestrict
to restrict the query to a specific language - Set
orderBy
to order the query by newest or relevance andprintType
to filter in books or magazines - Set
maxResults
to set the max amount of results. - Set
startIndex
for pagination
Specific books #
First of all, to get a specific book, you need its id. You can get the book id by querying the name of it and calling book.id
.
Next step is to get the book. To get it, just call the function getSpecificBook
. For example:
final specificBook = await getSpecificBook(book.id);
But if you already have a book
object, you can just call:
final completeInfo = await book.completeInfoBook;
Books #
If you already have a Book
object, you can call book.info
to get all the book infos.
- title: returns a
String
with the title of the book - authors: returns a
list of strings
with all the authors names - publisher: returns a
String
with the publisher name - publishedDate: returns a
DateTime
with the published date - description: returns a
String
with the description of the book - pageCount: returns a
int
with the amount of pages the book has - categories: returns a
list of strings
with the categories the book is in - averageRating: returns a
double
with the average rating of the book - ratingsCount: returns a
int
with the amount of people that rated the book - maturityRating: returns a
String
with the maturity rating of the book - contentVersion: returns a
String
with the content version - imageLinks: returns a
List<Map<String, Uri>>
with all the avaiable image resources urls - language: returns a
String
with the language code of the book
Open source #
This project is open source and is under BSD LICENCE. Feel free to open an issue or make a pull request to the project.