8enSmith/mcp-open-library

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for the Internet Archive's Open Library API that enables AI assistants to search for book and author information.

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This tool helps AI assistants quickly find detailed information about books and authors from the Open Library. You can input book titles or author names and receive structured data like publication dates, author biographies, and direct links to book covers or author photos. It's designed for anyone using an AI assistant for research, content creation, or educational purposes related to literature.

Available on npm.

Use this if you need your AI assistant to reliably fetch specific book and author details, including images, directly from the Open Library database.

Not ideal if you need to manage personal book collections, track reading progress, or access proprietary publisher databases.

literature-research book-information author-biographies content-creation digital-librarianship
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Language

TypeScript

License

MIT

Last pushed

Feb 04, 2026

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