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Search books and authors in the Internet Archive's Open Library.
Copy the install command and let the AI configure it · recommended for beginners
Please install the "Open Library" MCP server from askskill: Run: claude mcp add 'io-github-8ensmith-mcp-open-library' -- npx -y mcp-open-library
Students or researchers can search by author or title to quickly confirm whether relevant catalog entries exist. It is useful for early-stage reading, topic selection, or literature discovery.
Writers can use it to search books and authors while preparing reviews, articles, or recommendation lists. This helps verify basic bibliographic information and reduces manual lookup time.
It is used to search for books and authors in the Internet Archive's Open Library. Based on the provided description, its core capability is retrieving book and author information.
The known capabilities include searching books and authors. The provided materials do not specify finer fields, filters, or response formats; see the source repository.
The provided materials do not include installation steps, API key requirements, or runtime dependencies. Please see the source repository for exact prerequisites.
Search Open Library books and authors, retrieve metadata, and compare works.
Search books and authors, retrieve editions, subjects, and cover images.
Find books by subject or genre with titles, authors, and years.
Scrape Open Library editions, authors, subjects, and identifiers as structured data.
Search scholarly papers and authors through OpenAlex with no API key.
Discover, screen, and rank scholarly papers, export to Zotero, and generate ideas.