Open Library

About

Open Library provides an MCP server that empowers AI assistants to interact with the Internet Archive's Open Library API. It offers functionalities to search for books by title, authors by name, retrieve detailed author information using their Open Library key, and obtain URLs for author photos. The server returns structured data for seamless integration with MCP-compatible clients.

Key Features

• Author search by name
• Retrieval of detailed author information using Open Library Key
• Retrieval of book cover URLs using various identifiers
• Book search by title
• Retrieval of author photo URLs using Open Library Author ID (OLID)
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Use Cases

• Building AI tools that provide author biographies and information
• Integrating book search into AI-powered reading assistants
• Enabling AI to fetch book cover images for visual representation