GoogleBooksClient

Simple API wrapper for Google's Books API written in Swift.

Features

So far, GoogleBooksClient supports searching for volumes and fetching information about individual volumes by ID.

Currently unsupported: User-specific information via authenticated requests.

To-Do List

(not ordered by priority or severity)

• Add unit test coverage
• Support reactive frameworks supported by Moya (RxSwift, ReactiveSwift)
• Improve documentation
• Add continuous integration (travis-ci? circleCI? buddybuild?)
• Add Cocoapods support
• Add Swift Package Manager support

Installation

Dependencies/Requirements

• Xcode 9+
• Swift 4
• iOS 10+
• Moya

API key

Get your Google API Key from Google's Developer Console. There's two ways of providing your API key to GoogleBooksClient:

1. Explicitly when instantiating GoogleBooksClient(apiKey: .explicit("YOUR-API-KEY-HERE")
2. Implicitly via your Info.plist entry called GoogleBooksClientAPIKey.

Note: GoogleBooksClient will work for most requests without API key. However, Google's Terms of Service require the use of an API key and/or access token and failure to provide an API key makes your application subject to more aggressive rate limiting!

Cocoapods

// Podfile

target "YOURTARGETNAME" do
  use_frameworks!

  pod "GoogleBooksClient", :git => "https://github.com/opfeffer/GoogleBooksClient" # directly referencing Github until GA release
end

Carthage

// Cartfile

github "opfeffer/GoogleBooksClient" "master"

Swift Package Manager

// Package.swift

.package(url: "https://github.com/opfeffer/GoogleBooksClient", .branch("master"))

Usage

See GoogleBooksClient.playground for details.

A note on Playground Support

Xcode Playgrounds are a great way to prototype and test functionality without having to constantly re-run your application. It also allows standalone execution of a library/framework. Please note, should your API key be application-restricted to iOS applications only, you will want to add com.apple.dt.playground as a valid bundle identifier in Google's developer console.

License

GoogleBooksClient is released under an MIT license. See LICENSE for more information.