I came across an interesting API from OpenLibrary (part of the Internet Archive) that can return the cover image for any book given an ISBN code or other identifier: Open Library Covers API | Open Library Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page fo…

Thanks @jeremyruston . This plugin from the old forum is also useful for openlibrary lookups. My Stuff — stuff i do and have done This plugin requests book details from the archive at https://openlibrary.org/ using the ISBN number of the book. The details ar…

You can also use the function definition or only use text substitution:  \function openlibrary-cover-url(value,key:"isbn",size:"M") [[https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/$(key)$/$(value)$-$(size)$.jpg]substitute[]] \end  \procedure o…

Folks. Please test your code before posting. @XLBilly Yours was almost right, so I fixed and reformatted it for better readability. @wiki_user Your code does not work. – Which tells me, that we desperately need to improve our text substitution documentation.

Thanks @Watt for the mention of my plugin… I’ve been meaning to update this to make use of viewtemplate cascades and tm-http-request instead of using javascript to fetch the data… If there are any budding TW plugin creators out there that want to give this a go - I’m happy to help mentor them throu…

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API for displaying images of book covers

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