Hkpl: Get Book Details
Hkpl via Parse · education
Get detailed bibliographic information and all holding copies for a specific book by its chamo_id. Returns the full title, author, call number, a details object with Chinese-keyed bibliographic fields (publisher, year, subject, ISBN, language, etc.), and a holdings array listing every branch copy with its location, call number, availability status (on-shelf, due-date, reserved), and collection type. Extract detailed library catalog information including book metadata and real-time availability from the Hong Kong Public Libraries (HKPL) catalog. Fulfilled by Parse from webcat.hkpl.gov.hk.
- education
- government-public
- hkpl
- other
- parse
- platform-key
- webcat-hkpl-gov-hk
Price and execution
- Price
- $0.02 USD credits / call
- Trust tier
- Verified
- Execution
- Managed call
- Capability group
- education
Interface snapshot
- Protocol
- HTTP operation
- Operation
- GET /scraper/983d33d9-e887-4aed-994c-ae7876761f37/get_book_details
- Interface artifact
- sha256:ca7ddf95c0bec5f8748479edf33c3c5d79c116681ab681fc8817206f7d1b1bb9
- Manifest digest
- sha256:87035464688854c19ba73b7c7d11302672dfa18465d7eaa26b6ec3ea2bf6f8aa
Request fields
- chamo_id (string, required): Internal library ID in the format chamo:<numeric_id> (e.g. chamo:3460423). Obtain from search_books results.
Example queries
- {"chamo_id":"chamo:<numeric_id>"}