Books API

Operational

Search titles, authors, and ISBNs. Designed for low-volume lookup, not bulk harvest.

Free Session · Free — low volume

Overview

Search titles, authors, and ISBNs. Designed for low-volume lookup, not bulk harvest. Customers never receive upstream URLs or credentials.

Authentication

Send x-api-key. Bearer tokens that start with ak_live_ are accepted.

Endpoints

GET /api/v1/books/search

Parameters

Response

{
  "success": true,
  "data": {},
  "meta": { "requestId": "req_...", "timestamp": "...", "responseTime": 42 }
}

Errors

INVALID_PARAMETER, INVALID_API_KEY, RATE_LIMIT_EXCEEDED, TRIAL_EXPIRED, PLAN_REQUIRED, CONFIGURATION_REQUIRED, PROVIDER_UNAVAILABLE, INTERNAL_ERROR.

Rate Limits

1,000 requests / day on the Free plan unless configured otherwise.

Examples

curl

curl "https://labs.astrosia.tech/apikit-api/api/v1/books/search?q=dune" \
  -H "x-api-key: ak_live_xxxxx"

javascript

const res = await fetch("https://labs.astrosia.tech/apikit-api/api/v1/books/search?q=dune", {
  headers: { "x-api-key": process.env.APIKIT_KEY }
});
const json = await res.json();

python

import os, requests

r = requests.get(
  "https://labs.astrosia.tech/apikit-api/api/v1/books/search?q=dune",
  headers={"x-api-key": os.environ["APIKIT_KEY"]},
)
print(r.json())

java

HttpRequest request = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
  .uri(URI.create("https://labs.astrosia.tech/apikit-api/api/v1/books/search?q=dune"))
  .header("x-api-key", System.getenv("APIKIT_KEY"))
  .GET()
  .build();

php

$ch = curl_init("https://labs.astrosia.tech/apikit-api/api/v1/books/search?q=dune");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ["x-api-key: " . getenv("APIKIT_KEY")]);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
echo curl_exec($ch);

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