Openlibrary API

Books & Literature

Access Openlibrary public data through one AllAPI key — 31 endpoints across the Openlibrary surface. No Openlibrary account, no credentials, no scraping stack — one anonymous request returns real data or a documented honest error, never fabricated.

Method	Endpoint	Operation
POST	/api/openlibrary/author	Author
POST	/api/openlibrary/author_lists	Author lists
POST	/api/openlibrary/author_works	Author works
POST	/api/openlibrary/authors	Authors
POST	/api/openlibrary/book	Book
POST	/api/openlibrary/book_by_isbn	Book by isbn
GET	/api/openlibrary/books	Books
POST	/api/openlibrary/bookshelves	Bookshelves
POST	/api/openlibrary/edition	Edition
POST	/api/openlibrary/editions	Editions
POST	/api/openlibrary/languages	Languages
POST	/api/openlibrary/list	List
POST	/api/openlibrary/list_editions	List editions
POST	/api/openlibrary/lists	Lists
POST	/api/openlibrary/people	People
POST	/api/openlibrary/ratings	Ratings
POST	/api/openlibrary/recent_changes	Recent changes
POST	/api/openlibrary/recent_changes_by_date	Recent changes by date
POST	/api/openlibrary/recent_changes_by_kind	Recent changes by kind
POST	/api/openlibrary/search	Search
POST	/api/openlibrary/search_authors	Search authors
GET	/api/openlibrary/search_authors_json	Search authors json
POST	/api/openlibrary/search_inside	Search inside
POST	/api/openlibrary/search_lists	Search lists
POST	/api/openlibrary/search_subjects	Search subjects
GET	/api/openlibrary/subjects_json	Subjects json
POST	/api/openlibrary/trending	Trending
POST	/api/openlibrary/volumes	Volumes
POST	/api/openlibrary/work_lists	Work lists
POST	/api/openlibrary/works	Works
POST	/api/openlibrary/works_by_subject	Works by subject

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