Postman exampleLearn how to access the list of books in your account with the Book API.

Please make sure you read the Kotobee API Introduction before starting out here.

List books

The URL base API (https://www.kotobee.com/api/v1/book/all) fetches the list of cloud ebooks, hosted ebooks, or library ebooks in your account. Available variables are as follows,

Here's an example on a list  of ebooks in a library with ID 123 for a user account: https://www.kotobee.com/api/v1/book/all?serial=1234-5678-9999-9999&type=library&libid=123

Here's an example on a list  of cloud ebooks (with full details) for a user account: https://www.kotobee.com/api/v1/book/all?serial=1234-5678-9999-9999&type=cloud

An example of how to do it using POST variables with PHP:

$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => 1,
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://www.kotobee.com/api/v1/book/all",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER => false,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
  CURLOPT_POST => true
));

$data = array();
$data["serial"] = "1234-5678-9999-9999";
$data["type"] = "cloud";
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);

$resp = curl_exec($curl);
//echo $resp;     //in case you want to view the result
curl_close($curl);

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Add book

The URL base API (https://www.kotobee.com/api/v1/book/add) adds a new book (hosted ebook or library ebook) to your account. This endpoint accepts an EPUB file as a base64 encoded string. You may convert your file to a base64 string using any base64 encoding service such as https://www.base64encode.org/. Full list of variables are as follows,

If successful, the response will return the book object along with its new ID.

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Edit book

The URL base API (https://www.kotobee.com/api/v1/book/edit) edits the book info (hosted ebook or library ebook) in your account. This endpoint requires the book id which you want to edit. Full list of variables are as follows,

If successful, the response will return the book object.

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Get book

The URL base API (https://www.kotobee.com/api/v1/book/get) gets a book's details from your account using its ID. Full list of variables are as follows,

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Delete book

The URL base API (https://www.kotobee.com/api/v1/book/delete) deletes a book from your account. Full list of variables are as follows,