OpenLibrary Books API
Transform your e-readers, educational software, and cataloging platforms with unified programmatic access to the world’s largest open book databases. The OpenLibrary Books API provides a consolidated, high-performance REST interface that standardizes data from Open Library and Project Gutenberg into clean JSON responses. Instead of building custom web scrapers or handling complex catalog dumps,…
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OpenLibrary Books API endpoints
| Method | Endpoint | Description |
|---|---|---|
| author_detail | ||
| POST |
/author_detail /author_detail |
Open Library Author Detail data for book catalogs, education apps, and enrichment workflows. This endpoint is API-only and runs through the standard Lambda HTTP worker template. |
| isbn_lookup | ||
| POST |
/isbn_lookup /isbn_lookup |
Open Library ISBN Lookup data for book catalogs, education apps, and enrichment workflows. This endpoint is API-only and runs through the standard Lambda HTTP worker template. |
| work_details | ||
| POST |
/work_details /work_details |
Lookup Open Library work metadata by work id. This endpoint is API-only and runs through the standard HTTP JSON worker template. |
| subject_books | ||
| POST |
/subject_books /subject_books |
Fetch Open Library works for a subject such as fantasy, history, or programming. This endpoint is API-only and runs through the standard HTTP JSON worker template. |
| publisher_search | ||
| POST |
/publisher_search /publisher_search |
Open Library Publisher Search data for book catalogs, education apps, and enrichment workflows. This endpoint is API-only and runs through the standard Lambda HTTP worker template. |
| title_search | ||
| POST |
/title_search /title_search |
Open Library Title Search data for book catalogs, education apps, and enrichment workflows. This endpoint is API-only and runs through the standard Lambda HTTP worker template. |
| author_books | ||
| POST |
/author_books /author_books |
Open Library Author Books Search data for book catalogs, education apps, and enrichment workflows. This endpoint is API-only and runs through the standard Lambda HTTP worker… |
| author_search | ||
| POST |
/author_search /author_search |
Search Open Library author records by name. This endpoint is API-only and runs through the standard HTTP JSON worker template. |
| author_works | ||
| POST |
/author_works /author_works |
Open Library Author Works data for book catalogs, education apps, and enrichment workflows. This endpoint is API-only and runs through the standard Lambda HTTP worker template. |
| book_search | ||
| POST |
/book_search /book_search |
Search book records, authors, publish years, ISBNs, and editions from Open Library public data. This endpoint is API-only and runs through the standard HTTP JSON worker template. |
| books_by_ids | ||
| POST |
/books_by_ids /books_by_ids |
Gutendex Books by IDs from Project Gutenberg metadata via Gutendex. This endpoint is API-only and runs through the standard Lambda HTTP worker template. |
OpenLibrary Books API pricing
| Plan | Price | Rate limit | Quotas |
|---|---|---|---|
| BASIC | Free | 5 / minute |
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| PRO | $5 / month | 30 / minute |
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| ULTRA | $10 / month | 60 / minute |
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| MEGA | $30 / month | 150 / minute |
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