AbeBooks Search Web Services
The AbeBooks Search Web Services (SWS) puts real-time access to our catalog in your hands. Utilising our SWS allows you to build applications or re-create our search functions on your own web site. AbeBooks SWS can be used in conjunction with our Affiliate Program, providing your users with the books they need, us with valuable traffic, and you with a great source of income. Up to 7% in product referral fees can be earned. Follow this link to find out more about our Affiliate Program.
Since there are books about everything under the sun, we are sure to have products related to your web site's focus: books, cars, home-schooling, religion, self-help, business, education, history, art; the list goes on forever. With over 110 million books in our catalog, including inventory from AbeBooks.com, AbeBooks.co.uk, AbeBooks.de, AbeBooks.fr, AbeBooks.it, and IberLibro.com, you can promote books from all over the world, on any topic, via one simple process. Since AbeBooks is the world's largest online marketplace dedicated solely to books, there's no better partner.
Use of the SWS is restricted to users driving traffic to one of the AbeBooks sites. Feel free to contact us if you're unsure whether your project qualifies. If you would like more information, you can read the Web Services end user guide.
To gain access to Abebooks Search Web Services, simply follow the 3 steps below to obtain your Client Key:
1. Submit a Client Key request:
Submit a Client Key request by clicking Make Request and filling out the form. Read and accept the Terms of Use, (you may print these for your records).
Note: In order to complete the Client Key Request Form, you must first be signed on to your Abebooks account. If you are not signed on when you click Make Request, you will be prompted to Sign On in order to access the form.
2. Receive your Confirmation E-mail and link:
Once your request has been submitted, you will receive a Confirmation E-mail that contains a link to your Client Key.
3. Get your Client Key:
Clicking the link in the Confirmation E-mail, or copy and pasting the URL into the address bar of your browser, will take you to a page that will provide you with your Client Key.
