Search a digital collection and check title availability via the OverDrive Discovery API

domain: developer.overdrive.com · 4 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps

  1. Obtain an OAuth2 client_credentials access token from the OverDrive Developer Portal
  2. Send GET to the Search API with the library's collection token and a q query parameter
  3. Follow the availability hypermedia link in each search result to call the Library Availability API
  4. Parse copiesOwned/copiesAvailable/numberOfHolds to determine if the title can be checked out immediately or requires a hold

Known gotchas

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