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Open Library
The Internet Archive's Open Library provides bibliographic data for over 20 million books — searchable by title, author, ISBN, or subject.
Base URL
https://openlibrary.orgbooksbibliographicISBNauthorsfree
Endpoints
GET
/search.jsonSearch for books by title, author, or ISBN.
const response = await fetch("https://openlibrary.org/search.json?q=the+great+gatsby&limit=5", {
method: "GET",
headers: {
"Content-Type": "application/json"
}
});
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);Response Preview
{
"numFound": 184,
"docs": [{
"title": "The Great Gatsby",
"author_name": ["F. Scott Fitzgerald"],
"first_publish_year": 1925,
"isbn": ["9780743273565"]
}]
}