Find a work by its title
search_worksFind works in the Bibliothèque nationale de France catalogue by title words and retrieve identifiers for editions and related records.
Instructions
Find a work in the Bibliothèque nationale de France catalogue by words in its title, and get the identifier get_work and list_editions take. A row matches when its title carries every word given. The index returns no measure of how well a row matches, so the rows are in index order and the work a person would call the obvious answer can sit anywhere in the list or on a later page. A study of a book carries the book's title, so a search for a famous title returns the criticism alongside the work. Read 'creators' to tell them apart. This reads titles and nothing else. It cannot find the works of a named person: searching a person's name returns works written about them, whose creators are their critics. 'status' says whether the BnF has established the work as a record of its own or holds it provisionally under a title it has catalogued.
Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| page | No | ||
| limit | No | ||
| title | Yes | Words from the title, such as 'saison enfer'. Every word given has to appear. |
Output Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| page | Yes | ||
| notes | Yes | ||
| title | Yes | The words asked for. | |
| works | Yes | ||
| has_more | Yes | ||
| retrieved_at | Yes | When these metadata were read from data.bnf.fr, as an ISO 8601 instant. The BnF licence asks for this date to be stated wherever the metadata are shown, so repeat it alongside the source. | |
| words_searched | Yes |