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Note that by default, navigating to https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL23919A will redirect to https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL23919A/J._K._Rowling (appending the human readable slug "J._K._Rowling"). Adding .json to the end of the slug (e.g. https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL23919A/J._K._Rowling.json) will not work. You must first remove the human readable slug and append `.json` directly to the end of the author's key, e.g. https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL23919A.json. |
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Note that by default, navigating to https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL23919A will redirect to https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL23919A/J._K._Rowling (appending the human readable slug "J._K._Rowling"). Adding .json to the end of the slug (e.g. https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL23919A/J._K._Rowling.json) will not work. You must first remove the human readable slug and append `.json` directly to the end of the author's key, e.g. https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL23919A.json. |
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