Hkpl: Search Books
Hkpl via Parse · education
Search the HKPL catalog by keyword. Returns paginated results (10 per page) with basic metadata per book: title, author, call number, publisher, and a Chinese-language availability summary showing which branches hold copies on-shelf. Pagination advances via the page parameter. The total_results count reflects the full hit set. 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/search_books
- Interface artifact
- sha256:457da4b2b31281fafa8add34f17665c14a6e71b764fabdb8794bdc889f40d93e
- Manifest digest
- sha256:0cfb8c3c7985e24ae57c359e3a5a51fe19cf425cb3fa4929bf38b246eb374344
Request fields
- page (integer): Page number of search results (1-based)
- query (string, required): Search keyword to find books in the catalog
Example queries
- {"page":"1","query":"Harry Potter"}