Automate Google Books
HumDay reads Google Books’s own published API description and derives 51 operations from it. Describe the outcome you want in plain words — you get a program that is written, proven on real data, and run for you.
What Google Books is
The Google Books API allows clients to access the Google Books repository.
API host: books.googleapis.com
What HumDay can do in Google Books
21 documented operations change something in Google Books.
- POSTAdd a user-upload volume and triggers processing.
/books/v1/cloudloading/addBook - POSTInitiates sharing of the content with the user's family.
/books/v1/familysharing/share - POSTUpdates a user-upload volume.
/books/v1/cloudloading/updateBook - POSTInitiates revoking content that has already been shared with the user's family.
/books/v1/familysharing/unshare - POSTInserts a new annotation.
/books/v1/mylibrary/annotations - POSTSets the settings for the user.
/books/v1/myconfig/updateUserSettings - POSTRate a recommended book for the current user.
/books/v1/volumes/recommended/rate - POSTAccepts the promo offer.
/books/v1/promooffer/accept - POSTMarks the promo offer as dismissed.
/books/v1/promooffer/dismiss - POSTRequest concurrent and download access restrictions.
/books/v1/myconfig/requestAccess - POSTRemove the book and its contents
/books/v1/cloudloading/deleteBook - POSTRequest downloaded content access for specified volumes on the My eBooks shelf.
/books/v1/myconfig/syncVolumeLicenses - POSTRelease downloaded content access restriction.
/books/v1/myconfig/releaseDownloadAccess - POSTAdds a volume to a bookshelf.
/books/v1/mylibrary/bookshelves/{shelf}/addVolume - POSTGets the summary of specified layers.
/books/v1/mylibrary/annotations/summary - DELETEDeletes an annotation.
/books/v1/mylibrary/annotations/{annotationId} - PUTUpdates an existing annotation.
/books/v1/mylibrary/annotations/{annotationId} - POSTMoves a volume within a bookshelf.
/books/v1/mylibrary/bookshelves/{shelf}/moveVolume - POSTClears all volumes from a bookshelf.
/books/v1/mylibrary/bookshelves/{shelf}/clearVolumes - POSTRemoves a volume from a bookshelf.
/books/v1/mylibrary/bookshelves/{shelf}/removeVolume - POSTSets my reading position information for a volume.
/books/v1/mylibrary/readingpositions/{volumeId}/setPosition
What HumDay can read from Google Books
These are the operations a schedule or a trigger can watch.
- GETRetrieves a list of public bookshelves for the specified user.
/books/v1/users/{userId}/bookshelves - GETReturns a list of promo offers available to the user
/books/v1/promooffer/get - GETReturn a list of recommended books for the current user.
/books/v1/volumes/recommended - GETReturn a list of books uploaded by the current user.
/books/v1/volumes/useruploaded - GETRetrieves a list of bookshelves belonging to the authenticated user.
/books/v1/mylibrary/bookshelves - GETPerforms a book search.
/books/v1/volumes - GETReturn a list of books in My Library.
/books/v1/volumes/mybooks - GETReturns notification details for a given notification id.
/books/v1/notification/get - GETRetrieves a list of annotations, possibly filtered.
/books/v1/mylibrary/annotations - GETGets the current settings for the user.
/books/v1/myconfig/getUserSettings - GETList categories for onboarding experience.
/books/v1/onboarding/listCategories - GETGets information regarding the family that the user is part of.
/books/v1/familysharing/getFamilyInfo - GETReturns a list of offline dictionary metadata available
/books/v1/dictionary/listOfflineMetadata - GETList available volumes under categories for onboarding experience.
/books/v1/onboarding/listCategoryVolumes - GETRetrieves metadata for a specific bookshelf for the specified user.
/books/v1/users/{userId}/bookshelves/{shelf} - GETRetrieves metadata for a specific bookshelf belonging to the authenticated user.
/books/v1/mylibrary/bookshelves/{shelf} - GETReturn a list of associated books.
/books/v1/volumes/{volumeId}/associated - GETList the layer summaries for a volume.
/books/v1/volumes/{volumeId}/layersummary - GETReturns Series metadata for the given series ids.
/books/v1/series/get - GETRetrieves volumes in a specific bookshelf for the specified user.
/books/v1/users/{userId}/bookshelves/{shelf}/volumes - GETReturns a stream of personalized book clusters
/books/v1/personalizedstream/get - GETGets volume information for a single volume.
/books/v1/volumes/{volumeId} - GETReturns Series membership data given the series id.
/books/v1/series/membership/get - GETRetrieves my reading position information for a volume.
/books/v1/mylibrary/readingpositions/{volumeId} - GETGets volume information for volumes on a bookshelf.
/books/v1/mylibrary/bookshelves/{shelf}/volumes - GETGets the volume annotations for a volume and layer.
/books/v1/volumes/{volumeId}/layers/{layerId} - GETGets the layer summary for a volume.
/books/v1/volumes/{volumeId}/layersummary/{summaryId} - GETGets the annotation data for a volume and layer.
/books/v1/volumes/{volumeId}/layers/{layerId}/data - GETGets the annotation data.
/books/v1/volumes/{volumeId}/layers/{layerId}/data/{annotationDataId} - GETGets the volume annotation.
/books/v1/volumes/{volumeId}/layers/{layerId}/annotations/{annotationId}
How automating Google Books works
- Describe the outcome. Say what you want to happen, in your own words. No node graphs, no field mapping.
- Approve the contract. HumDay writes down exactly what it will do, what it will touch, and what it will never do. You approve it before anything is built.
- See it proven. The program runs and shows you the result before it is allowed near your live Google Books account.
- Grant access, then go live. You approve the specific Google Books operations it may use — and only those.
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Questions about Google Books automation
- Can HumDay connect to Google Books?
- Yes. HumDay reads Google Books's own published API description and derives the operations from it, so there is no hand-built connector to wait for. 51 operations are documented.
- Do I need to write code to automate Google Books?
- No. You describe the outcome you want in plain words. HumDay agrees a contract with you, writes the program, and shows you a test run before anything touches your Google Books account.
- What can HumDay do in Google Books?
- 21 of the 51 documented operations change something in Google Books, and 30 read from it. HumDay only ever uses the specific operations your approved contract needs.
- Is my Google Books account safe?
- Your credentials are stored encrypted and are never shown in chat, code, or logs. Every run is limited to the operations you explicitly approved, and anything that writes to Google Books is held behind that approval.
Where this came from
The operations above are read from a published API description for Google Books at books.googleapis.com/$discovery/rest?version=v1. Descriptions are the provider’s own words, not ours. Last published 2023-04-21.