STANDS4 Web Services:

Literature API

The Literature API from STANDS4 enables you to get instant data from our vast literature collection.

Request URL:

https://www.stands4.com/services/v2/literature.php

Request parameters:

Parameter	Value	Required	Default	Description
uid	string	Y		Your API user id
tokenid	string	Y		Your valid developer token id
term	string	Y		The word you would like to get literature results for
format	string	N	xml	The format in which you want the result returned (xml or json)

Sample request URL:

https://www.stands4.com/services/v2/literature.php?uid=1001&tokenid=tk324324&term=alice&format=xml

Response elements:

Element	Description
results	Contains all of the query responses
result	Contains each individual response
title	The script title this result is referring to
subtitle	The script title this result is referring to
writer	The writer of this work
link	A direct link to the book on Literature.com


					<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<results>
    <result>
        <title>Alice in Wonderland</title>
        <subtitle>Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson over the pseudonym Lewis Carroll.</subtitle>
        <writer>Lewis Carroll</writer>
        <link>https://www.literature.com/book//book/alice_in_wonderland_2</link>
    </result>
</results>


					{
	"results": {
		"result": {
			"title": "Alice in Wonderland",
			"subtitle": "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson over the pseudonym Lewis Carroll.",
			"writer": "Lewis Carroll",
			"link": "https://www.literature.com/book//book/alice_in_wonderland_2"
		}
	}
}