catalog

Search books

Find a book in the Siftivo catalog by its title or author, or by words from what it is about, and get the workId the other Siftivo tools take. Suits a named book ("add Circe to my list", "what is Babel about", "is Demon Copperhead worth reading") and the book behind a half-remembered plot ("the novel about a man alone in an endless house of statues").

get/api/agent/search_books

Request

  • Base URL: https://api.siftivo.com
  • URL: https://api.siftivo.com/api/agent/search_books
  • Auth: none required

Query parameters

querystring required

Words to search for

limitinteger
isFictionboolean

Restrict to fiction (true) or nonfiction (false)

Response

Success

object required

Changes

No recorded changes to this operation across all 1 revision of this API.