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Platform API endpoint with unified authentication and usage tracking.

Production API
Platform API endpoint
https://api.sandbase.ai/v1/api/google-play/books
Authorization header
Authorization: Bearer $SANDBASE_API_KEY
# The quoted heredoc keeps Unicode and shell metacharacters unchanged.
result=$(curl --fail-with-body --silent \
  -X POST "https://api.sandbase.ai/v1/api/google-play/books" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SANDBASE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --data-binary @- <<'SANDBASE_JSON'
{
  "q": "Dune",
  "gl": "us",
  "hl": "en"
}
SANDBASE_JSON
)
printf '%s\n' "$result"

2. Authentication

Set your SandBase API key in your server environment. Requests use Bearer authentication.

API key environment variable
export SANDBASE_API_KEY="YOUR_API_KEY"

Keep your key on the server. Do not expose it in browser code.

3. Parameters

hlstring

Storefront language, such as en, de, or zh-TW. Maximum 32 characters.

Default: "en"

glstring

Two-letter country code.

Default: "us"

qstring

At most 2,048 UTF-8 bytes.

chartstring

Chart identifier such as topselling_free, topselling_paid, or topgrossing. Excludes q and all pagination selectors. Apps and games charts require phone or an omitted store_device.

next_page_tokenstring

Use the returned next_page_token with the same parameters. Excludes chart, section_page_token, and see_more_token.

section_page_tokenstring

Continue one result group using its returned token and the same parameters. Excludes the other pagination selectors and chart.

see_more_tokenstring

Open a result collection using its returned token and the same parameters. Excludes the other pagination selectors and chart.

books_categorystring

Native book category identifier, such as coll_1689 for children's books. Excludes q.

agestring

Children's age range. Requires books_category=coll_1689.

Possible values: AGE_RANGE1, AGE_RANGE2, AGE_RANGE3

priceinteger

1 for free books or 2 for paid books. Requires q.

timeoutnumber

Optional budget for the entire request in seconds, measured from gateway receipt until the response is ready to send. Includes admission, queueing and settlement. Must be greater than 0 and at most 90. On expiry, the call is not billed and returns 503 request_deadline_exceeded with retryable=true an

4. Response

Saved example response for this API; no live request is made when viewing it.

No saved response has been published. Run the API in Playground to inspect its response.