Penguin Publishing API

Name: Penguin Publishing API
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Penguin Random House book catalogue

🔑 Auth: apiKey 🔒 HTTPS: Yes 🌐 CORS: Unknown View Documentation

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Category	Books

Endpoint:: http://www.penguinrandomhouse.biz/webservices/rest/

Quick Integration Code

⚠️ Auth: apiKey

// ⚠️  This API requires apiKey authentication
// Add your credentials to the headers below
fetch("http://www.penguinrandomhouse.biz/webservices/rest/")
  .then(response => {
    if (!response.ok) throw new Error(`HTTP ${response.status}`);
    return response.json();
  })
  .then(data => console.log(data))
  .catch(error => console.error("Request failed:", error));

# ⚠️  This API requires apiKey authentication
# Add your credentials to the headers dict below
import requests

url = "http://www.penguinrandomhouse.biz/webservices/rest/"
headers = {
    "Accept": "application/json",
    # "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_TOKEN_HERE",
}

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers, timeout=10)
response.raise_for_status()
data = response.json()
print(data)

curl -X GET "http://www.penguinrandomhouse.biz/webservices/rest/" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKEN_HERE" \
  -H "Accept: application/json" \
  -H "User-Agent: MyApp/1.0" \
  --max-time 10 \
  --silent | python3 -m json.tool

Sample JSON Response — Books

Books

{
  "numFound": 1,
  "start": 0,
  "docs": [
    {
      "key": "/works/OL82563W",
      "title": "The Great Gatsby",
      "author_name": [
        "F. Scott Fitzgerald"
      ],
      "first_publish_year": 1925,
      "isbn": [
        "9780743273565"
      ],
      "subject": [
        "Fiction",
        "American literature"
      ],
      "language": [
        "eng"
      ]
    }
  ]
}