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May 22, 2024 | History

Open Library Data Dumps

Open Library provides dumps of all its data, generated every month. All of the dumps are formatted as tab separated files with the following columns:

Dumps

For past dumps, see: https://archive.org/details/ol_exports?sort=-publicdate

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Format of JSON records

A JSON schema for the various types is located at https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary-client/tree/master/olclient/schemata

Using Open Library Data Dumps

Please see this great guide by contributor on the LibrariesHacked github about how to load Open Library's data dumps into postgres to make it more useful and queriable:
https://github.com/LibrariesHacked/openlibrary-search

GraphQL

DiFronzo on github has produced a graphql proxy to search books using work, edition and ISBN with Open Library API. Deployed with Deno and GraphQL:

https://github.com/DiFronzo/OpenLibrary-GraphQL
DiFronzo/OpenLibrary-GraphQL

OL Covers Dump

We do not yet have rolling monthly dumps of our book covers, despite a shared desire for its existence. Some historical cover dumps may be explored here:
https://archive.org/details/ol_data?tab=collection&query=identifier%3Acovers&sort=-addeddate

History

May 22, 2024 Edited by raybb Edited without comment.
May 22, 2024 Edited by raybb covers url sorted by date added
May 22, 2024 Edited by raybb Edited without comment.
May 22, 2024 Edited by raybb placeolder for redirects and other
December 14, 2011 Created by Anand Chitipothu Documented Open Library Data Dumps