Obsidian: Book Fetcher

Book Fetcher is a vault that shows how to retrieve book metadata (e.g. title, authors, publisher, etc) from Google's Book API and then populate a note using it.

Below is an animated GIF that demonstrates saving details about the book named 'Hackers' by Steven Levy.

This allows you to rapidly create book-notes without spending the time searching for and typing out the information.

The process is simple: from within Obsidian, search for the book, choose the correct search result (by examining the title or looking at the book cover image). And a new note is created capturing key book information.

What's included in the vault:

• A template to fetch book metadata from Google's Book API
• Instructions to add this capability from the sample vault to another vault
• Instructions on
  • fetching your first book
  • improving your search results with 'search operators' (exact matches, negation, specific metadata fields)
  • how to update the configuration (e.g. where to save the note, how many search results to display, etc)
  • troubleshooting rare but potential issues
  • accessing Google's Book API documentation for a deeper understanding
• The warm feeling of encouraging more content like this to be created for you in the future!

Enjoy!