Last edited by Anand Chitipothu
January 26, 2012 | History
Open Library Data Dumps
Open Library provides dumps of all the data in various formats. Currently these dumps are generated every month.
OL Dump
This contains dump of latest editions of all the records in Open Library. This is a tab separated file with the following columns:
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type - type of record (/type/edition, /type/work etc.)
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key - unique key of the record. (/books/OL1M etc.)
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revision - revision number of the record
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last_modified - last modified timestamp
- JSON - the complete record in JSON format
This dump can be downloaded from:
http://openlibrary.org/data/ol_dump_latest.txt.gz
For convenience, this dump is split into multiple files based on type.
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editions dump - http://openlibrary.org/data/ol_dump_editions_latest.txt.gz
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works dump - http://openlibrary.org/data/ol_dump_works_latest.txt.gz
- authors dump - http://openlibrary.org/data/ol_dump_authors_latest.txt.gz
OL Complete Dump
This contains dump of all revisions of all the records in Open Library. Format is same as the OL dump.
This dump can be downloaded from:
http://openlibrary.org/data/ol_cdump_latest.txt.gz
Format of JSON records
Author Record
:TODO:
Edition
:TODO:
Work
:TODO:
OL Covers Dump
:TODO:
History Created December 14, 2011 · 4 revisions
| January 26, 2012 | Edited by Anand Chitipothu | Added a place holder for OL covers dump. |
| December 28, 2011 | Edited by Edward Betts | fix link to works dump |
| December 14, 2011 | Edited by Anand Chitipothu | Edited without comment. |
| December 14, 2011 | Created by Anand Chitipothu | Documented Open Library Data Dumps |