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OverDrive API Notices

  • Service Notice - 400 Bad Request - 29-JAN-2014

    OverDrive Partners,

    We are aware of intermittent responses of HTTP 400 Bad Request from the OverDrive APIs. We are currently investigating and hope to resolve the issue very soon.

    Thank you.

    -The … more

  • New Educational Metadata

    OverDrive API Partners

    Did you know you can get "educational metadata" from the responses of our Metadata API? *

    As an exmaple, here are the fields returned for one book:

    ...

       " … more

  • New Feature! Search for Changed Records

    OverDrive API Partners

    You can now use the OverDrive Search API to collect records that have changed since the last time you took updates. The new parameter in the Search API is called " … more

  • Service Notice - Connections Closing - UPDATE

    API Partners

    Good news! The "Connections Forcibly Closed" issue has now been resolved. Certain network conditions might cause similar connection failures in the future, but these conditions should … more

  • Service Notice - Connections Closing

    To All Partners

    We are currently experiencing intermittent connection issues with our API servers. You may receive responses similar to '500 write failed: An existing connection was forcibly closed … more

  • November Updates

    Partners

    Following are the improvements we've made in November to the OverDrive APIs:

    In an effort to standardize our date formats, publishDate is now a string (no longer a dateTime) in an ISO 860 … more

  • OverDrive Logos

    OverDrive API Partners

    Show customers your application is OverDrive-Integrated. Get approved logos for your OverDrive integration here, as well as size, placement, and color requirements. 

    - … more

  • Welcome!

    Welcome to the OverDrive API Announcement Board.

    Since you're here, you're probably helping to transform the way people are finding and enjoying digital media. Your work is important. By giving … more