Auto fetching of Book Cover

I swear I was just looking through some code and I thought about re-looking into adding this exact feature.

As the plugin is right now, it is not a feature because pulling down files from the internet is generally not a good idea. There has to be extra tight security checks to make sure the image file you are pulling down is a safe file to have on your server.

With that said, I’ll look into it but I can’t make any promises about implementing it.

I understand. I hope you do though! ??

I was just about to ask if this was an option.

I’d like to plus one this.

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Working on it.

Almost finished, just checking the UX of the feature…

I have added the feature in the 1.28.0 update.

So now there is a new “Fetch Book Cover” extension that can be activated. With this extension is activated, when you fetch data via ISBN a book cover will also be pulled. It will initially fetch a low quality version of the cover, temporarily, then when the review is saved it will get a higher quality.

Please note: As the plugin will now be downloading and saving an image to the WP media library, there will be a slight delay of about 500ms after clicking “publish” to the page reloading.

I have this plugin activated. But I don’t see an image when I enter an ISBN.

For example, 9781408890257 pulls in lots of data – but I don’t see an image. I’ve tried saving as a draft, but no image appears.

Is there a way for me to debug this? No errors in the JS console.

Hello again,
I will assume that you are using the G Books API.

Right now the book cover fetching API only works with the Gr API. The main reason for this is because the book covers provided by G Books are really small. If you look at the API response in your JS console you’ll see that returned book cover is 128×196. So it will look blurred and pixelated on your site.

With that said, I can add the G Books as a source for book covers if you want it added.