Widget:Google Books: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 15:34, 10 March 2025

This widget allows you to embed Google Books on your wiki page. Originally created by Arv and adapted by FrancisFranck.

Using this widget

To use this widget, add the following code to your wiki page:

{{#widget:Google_Books
 |id=BOOK_ID
 |width=600
 |height=500
}}

Parameters:

id - The Google Books ID (required)
width - Width of the embedded viewer in pixels (optional, default: 600)
height - Height of the embedded viewer in pixels (optional, default: 500)

Copy to your site

To use this widget on your site, install MediaWiki Widgets extension and copy the complete source code of this page to your wiki as page Widget:Google Books.

@@ Line 23: / Line 23: @@
 </noinclude>
 <includeonly>
-<script type="text/javascript" src="https://books.google.com/books/previewlib.js"></script>
+<!-- Main container div with explicit sizing -->
+<div style="width:<!--{$width|escape:'html'|default:'600'}-->px; height:<!--{$height|escape:'html'|default:'500'}-->px; margin:1em 0;">
+  <!-- The ID must match what's used in the script -->
+  <div id="viewerCanvas<!--{$id|escape:'html'}-->" style="width:100%; height:100%;"></div>
+</div>
+<!-- Load the Google Books API -->
+<script type="text/javascript" src="https://www.google.com/books/jsapi.js"></script>
-<div class="google-books-container" style="clear: both; display: block; margin: 1em 0;">
+<!-- Initialize the viewer -->
 <script type="text/javascript">
 /* <![CDATA[ */
-(function() {
+function initializeGoogleBooksViewer() {
-   var width = <!--{$width|escape:'html'|default:'600'}-->;
+   var viewer = new google.books.DefaultViewer(
-   var height = <!--{$height|escape:'html'|default:'500'}-->;
+    document.getElementById('viewerCanvas<!--{$id|escape:'html'}-->')
-   var bookId = "<!--{$id|escape:'html'}-->";
+   );
+   viewer.load('<!--{$id|escape:'html'}-->');
-  function checkAndInitialize() {
+}
-    if (typeof GBS_insertEmbeddedViewer === 'function') {
-      document.write('<div style="width:' + width + 'px; height:' + height + 'px;"></div>');
+if (typeof google !== 'undefined' && google.books) {
-      GBS_insertEmbeddedViewer(bookId, width, height);
+  google.books.load();
-    } else {
+  google.books.setOnLoadCallback(initializeGoogleBooksViewer);
-      document.write('<p>Error: Google Books viewer could not be loaded.</p>');
+}
-    }
-  }
-  checkAndInitialize();
-})();
 /* ]]> */
 </script>
-</div>
 </includeonly>