BookMooch Data Access

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BookMooch provides broad access to its data and internal workings.

APIs

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) allow external software (such as other web applications) to easily access BookMooch data. Currently available APIs include asin, pending, userid, wishlist, moochable, and userbook. GUI APIs allow external applications to perform mooch, add to inventory, add to wishlist, and add to save-for-later actions at BookMooch.

See: http://www.bookmooch.com/api/

Data Feeds

Data feeds are daily-updated, nearly-complete database dumps of BookMooch information. Currently available feeds include asins, userids, pending, all_inventory, and all_wishlists.

All data on BookMooch (excepting that covered by the Amazon copyright) is provided under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. The data is also available under different licensing terms by special arrangement with BookMooch.

Tools

Here are some tools for working with the BookMooch data:

UserIDs XML to SQL - Aaron McBride's PHP script to convert the userids data feed into SQL for MySQL tables.

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