Hi there,
how can I add an additional field from google books to be imported? I would like to import the ISBN Number too.
Cheers Alex
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]]>I’m trying to use your Google Books Importer plugin with my wordpress account but am running into some trouble getting it up and running. I’m able to search for books, but when I click “Import” I get a 500 internal server error. I have allow_url_fopen = on enabled in my .user.ini file (I didn’t install wordpress myself as I am using this on a school server for a school project). Can you help?
Missing an important piece of information about a book such as the ISBN (10 and/or 13 or multiple) in the list of retrievable fields has been quite a mystery to me. Not sure if this is a recent addition in the API response but it seems that the response does include the information as I glanced on the Googles site at developers.google.com/books/docs/v1/using
I see…
“industryIdentifiers”: [
{
“type”: “ISBN_10”,
“identifier”: “055380457X”
},
{
“type”: “ISBN_13”,
“identifier”: “9780553804577”
}
],
…
The ISBN information is also listed at the Google Books when listing a book under “Bibliographic information”.
If the ISBN information is indeed available can GBI import it as a custom field like any other information it currently imports?
Many thanks for your attention.
]]>With API key in place GBI retrieves all fields (including the various image size links) but bails out at the point of creating featured image with error mentioned in the previous post (500 Internal Server Error). After days of investigation (including testing access from different geographic regions) I found out that most if not all image sizes other than smallThumbnail (zoom=5)cannot be retrieved due to 500 error reported by Google. Below two examples:
This is ok (smallThumbnail as the only available image):
https://books.google.com/books/content?id=UZEfjUi1RyoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl&imgtk=AFLRE70DY5hYnEHR6w-mAmpBFqcy_A_MEqpeOgsKkGt3os8FmMinXI0AfDvmavksxM8aW657FpUJ1RqgbPSdKJ6T4iFp3ha0R3svtqxGyPLR6ObEFmTqcvVoSDlWoKpC9FBjzzwNW1Cc&source=gbs_api
This is not ok (link saved as largeImage):
https://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZYOajAOrf6cC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=4&edge=curl&imgtk=AFLRE73OeVj3SE2bjQchdDDuCvhejlSedLEjg3TrqYYnZ_09pQvyUOsXlOJKZ1GKajgMivQFcgL5tAJFeMvrX7-kWJEwHFYtk95UN7vSUuy6QIA1MMbNNVCLRKZvpqUWG4iMOq19zjK7&source=gbs_api
(but if you manually change zoom to 5 it shows)
This is across the board and as I believe a recent occurrence.
Do you know the reason for this? What would solve this dilemma?
Many thanks.
]]>Hi,
I just tested your plugin and it works great. However, I can’t seem to add featured image since it’s throwing a warning. Here is the error:
`Warning: copy(https://books.google.com/books/content?id=PyWFCwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=4&edge=curl&imgtk=AFLRE73zVy16Av2XfQ7bx8imJJoriSTQ0OhlLeAEcCIboovnhEY6oAP_wNVIg9U0TWWCQEaVyAvO9sYFKHuhtMFu3t1YgbM6N4fLn52T3qhWb751KCl0kLWgdHsZksDaX9w2kAzUq9U6&source=gbs_api): failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.0 500 Internal Server Error in /wp-content/plugins/google-books-importer/inc/functions.php on line 20′
Do you have any insights with this error?
Cheers!
]]>If I understand the code correctly. if featured image is selected, only the largeImage is queried and imported if available. This leaves a proportionally large number of books without covers as Google Books does not always supply the largeImage. Is it possible to iterate through the custom fields (from largeImage to smallThumbnail) and catch the largest available cover (instead of bailing out if largeImage is not available)? Thanks again for your attention.
]]>Can the developer please shed light on why the retrieved values are non-ssl i.e. all of the relevant custom fields bring in something like this https://books.google.com/books/content?id=ujYY… which breaks the ssl seal. Would appreciate guidance on how to fix this.
]]>Hi, I love the plugin and I hope it gains popularity. For my website, I’d like to input a simple shortcode into a post that can use a book’s ISBN to display all the book’s meta, including description, on the post. Is there any way to do this with Google Books Importer?
Thanks ??
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