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isaacdl · 02-19-2014, 09:38 AM

I'm trying to write a new web-based front end to the Calibre content-server, utilizing the ajax API.

The API makes it really easy to get information about books very easily, but is there a straightforward way to get lists of authors? I want to somewhat duplicate the functionality of the "browse/category/authors" page in the default web interface, although maybe not as complex. I'd like to be able to just get a list of authors.

ajax_search only returns lists of book ids.

Is this possible?

02-19-2014, 09:38 AM	#1
isaacdl Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2014 Device: Kindle	Get author list from AJAX API I'm trying to write a new web-based front end to the Calibre content-server, utilizing the ajax API. The API makes it really easy to get information about books very easily, but is there a straightforward way to get lists of authors? I want to somewhat duplicate the functionality of the "browse/category/authors" page in the default web interface, although maybe not as complex. I'd like to be able to just get a list of authors. ajax_search only returns lists of book ids. Is this possible?