Search For Books In Category

Similar to Search For Books, but limited to a specific category

Searches the FT Press collection for books matching the specified criteria, returning the results in the requested format.

The syntax of the API is as follows:

http://api.pearson.com/ftpress/[category]/book.[format]?title=[title text]&tag=[tag values]&author=[name]&apikey=[apikey]&jsonp=[callback name]

where:

  • [category] is the URL friendly name of the category
  • [title text] is used to match occurrences in the book's title and can include * as a wildcard character
  • [tag vales] is a list of comma separated values
  • [author name] is the name of the author to search for and can include * as a wildcard character
  • [format] is the representation to be used for returning the results, can be one of the following:
    • html
    • xml
    • json
  • [callback name] when the format requested is json, the jsonp parameter is used to wrap the response in a jsonp style callback

 

Note: When accessing the full production API, remember to use your full production API key instead of your sandbox API key