mcp-open-library

MCP serverSearch

Search books and authors on the Internet Archive's Open Library

This server has no hosted endpoint yet, so ahel can't serve it. You can still add it. It stays paused until ahel can serve it.

One link, every agent. Your own credentials, stored once.

Tools it gives your agents (7)

Tool	What it does
search_books	Search Open Library across titles, authors, subjects, places, people, publishers and ISBNs.
get_book_by_title	Search for a book by its title on Open Library. Returns at most `limit` results (default 10) together with `num_found`, the total number of matches; page through them with `offset`.
get_book_by_id	Get detailed information about a book using its identifier (ISBN, LCCN, OCLC, OLID).
get_authors_by_name	Search for author information on Open Library. Returns at most `limit` authors (default 10) together with `num_found`, the total number of matches; page through them with `offset`.
get_author_info	Get detailed information for a specific author using their Open Library Author Key (e.g. OL23919A).
get_author_photo	Get the URL for an author's photo using their Open Library Author ID (OLID e.g. OL23919A). Reports when no photo exists rather than returning a URL to a blank placeholder.
get_book_cover	Get the URL for a book's cover image using a key (ISBN, OCLC, LCCN, OLID, ID) and value. Reports when no cover exists rather than returning a URL to a blank placeholder.