Task: Create a frontend to the OpenLibrary's REST API that does the following:

• Search for a user-provided phrase using the OpenLibrary's API.

• Graph the frequency over time with which that phrase appeared in books in the OpenLibrary's collection. 

• Allow users to see and link to the books containing that phrase in a certain year. 

Solution

R, Shiny, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

(Packages used: shiny, httr, jsonlite, shinyWidgets, stringr, ggplot2, shinydashboard, plotly, dplyr, DT, shinyjs)