books_finder

A library to help on the search for books on the Google Books Api.

Usage #

First of all, import the library:

import 'package:books_finder/books_finder.dart';

Querying books #

To query books, just call the function queryBooks:

final List<Book> books = await queryBooks(
 'twilight',
 queryType: QueryType.intitle,
 maxResults: 3,
 printType: PrintType.books,
 orderBy: OrderBy.relevance,
);

You can change a few parameters to make your query more specific:

Parameter	Description	Nullable
queryType	Keywords to search in particular fields	Yes
maxResults	Set the max amount of results	No
startIndex	for pagination	No
langRestrict	Retrict the query to a specific language	Yes
orderBy	Order the query by newest or relevance	Yes
printType	Filter by books, magazines or both	Yes
reschemeImageLinks	Rescheme image urls from http to https	No

Books #

If you already have a Book object, you can call book.info to get all the book infos:

final info = book.info;

Parameter	Description
title (String)	Title of the book
subtitle (String)	The subtile of the book
authors (List<String>)	All the authors names
publisher (String)	The publisher name
publishedDate (DateTime)	The date it was published
rawPublishedDate (String)	The date it was published in raw format
description (String)	Description of the book
pageCount (int)	The amount of pages
categories (List<String>)	The categories the book is in
averageRating (double)	The average rating of the book
ratingsCount (int)	The amount of people that rated it
maturityRating (String)	The maturity rating
contentVersion (String)	The version of the content
industryIdentifier (List<IndustryIdentifier>)	The identifiers of the book (isbn)
imageLinks (List<Map<String, Uri>>)	The links with the avaiable image resources
language (String)	The language code of the book

Acknowledgements #

• @JimTim for industry identifiers and tests
• @Moomink for fixing startIndex
• @niklasenberg for BookInfo.subtitle and QueryType

Issues and feedback #

Please file issues, bugs, or feature requests in our issue tracker.

To contribute a change to this plugin open a pull request.