Topic on Talk:Citoid/API

"search currently takes URLs, DOIs, PMCIDs, and PMID, ISBNs, QIDs, and fully formatted citations / free text search. If the unique identifier is unresolvable, you will get back a 404 response and a JSON error message."

From the Wikipedia REST API documentation: "Generates citation data given a URL, DOI, PMID, or PMCID."

And from the Citoid MediaWiki entrie: "To request metadata about a URL, DOI, PMCID, PMID or QID..."

Each one varies from the other. It's confusing. I've been triying to make petitions with ISBNs as query to verify, but I've got 404 responses.

Same with "free text search": @Mvolz (WMF) already clarified that in the current discussion page.

Are you using our api or the local installation using Zotero? Historically in production we had WorldCat integration, which meant we had free text search for books, and fairly comprehensive ISBN coverage. That ended somewhat abruptly, but a few weeks later we implemented ISBN retrieval with library of congress and a few other libraries. This is why there's somewhat inconsistent documentation. Currently we have partial ISBN coverage, and free text search for journal papers and academic books, but not most popular books. Hope that helps. We're using Zotero for isbn search, so if there are some isbns that aren't getting metadata, that might mean we need additional translators added for the library repositories that hold that metadata.