Template:Google books/doc

Usage
The,  ,  , and   parameters are all optional.

The id parameter is the string of twelve characters found in the specific Google Books URL after "id=" but before "&".

The title parameter is used to specify the publication title when used as a link (and not as a bare URL; title is not useful when plainurl is used).

The page parameter may be used to link to a particular 'normal' page (i.e. PA24). pg can be used for 'special' pages If the page is prefaced with RA-, that can usually be removed.
 * Normal pages, e.g. PA5 for normal page 5. This is equivalent to 5
 * Roman pages, e.g. PR5 for roman page v
 * preamble pages, e.g. PP5 for preamble page 5 (often not officially numbered, scheme varies from book to book)
 * e-book pages, e.g. PT5, for the fifth page of an e-book (often not officially numbered)

The keywords parameter may be used to search for particular keywords within the text (corresponding to the q parameter in the Google URL); text searches for a quoted phrase (corresponding to the dq parameter in the Google URL). Only one of these should be used.

The plainurl parameter tells the template to output a URL (web address) only, rather than a linked book title and page number. Use yes when using this template in a url parameter of a citation template. plain-url works as an alias.

In many cases when converting an existing Google Books URL, only one of the above should be used. When multiple parameters are present, the final target page is much more likely to vary over time. If linking to a specific page, only use the page parameter, and if doing a text search then do not include the page parameter. The desired parameters are often the ones after the # symbol, since GB uses javascript.

For external links, the following all do the same thing:

For URLs, the following all do the same thing:

Example 1:

creates
 * Brackenridge, H. M..

Example 2:

creates
 * Brackenridge, H. M..

Example 3:

creates
 * Brackenridge, H. M..

Example 4:

creates

Example 5:

creates
 * Brackenridge, H. M..

Example 6:

creates this which links to the bookplate on the inside cover
 * Brackenridge, H. M..

Example 7:

creates this which links to the title page complete with inscriptions
 * Brackenridge, H. M..

Generator

 * Citer, hosted on the Wikimedia toolforge, can be used to convert Google Books URLs — as well as many other forms of universal identifiers (DOI, ISBN, PMID,etc.) — into full transclusions.