RESTful API

Open Library provides RESTful API for accessing resources in multiple formats.

JSON

Earlier JSON API, which is deprecated now. This is retained only for backward compatibility and RESTful API should be used instead of this.

Books

A Google dynlinks inspired API.

Covers

API to access book covers from Open Library.

Bulk Access

If you want to a dump of complete data, please ask us by sending a mail to info@openlibrary.org. The APIs listed above should not be used for bulk download of Open Library data.

Open Library in the Wild

Are you using the Open Library APIs? Please let us know how your are using it by adding an entry in api_users page.