Authors

Search contributors by name, or get one by FullDatasets id.

MCP: search_authors { "q": "Andy Weir" } — do not put an author-only string into search_books.

Search

curl -sS -H "Authorization: Bearer $FDS_API_KEY" \
  "https://api.fulldatasets.com/v1/authors/search?q=Andy%20Weir"

Query	Required	Notes
q	yes	Name or prefix
limit	no	Default 20, max 50

{ "results": [{ "id": "fds_au_…", "name": "Andy Weir", "sort_name": "Weir, Andy" }] }

Prefix and trigram match on contributors.name. Books by that person: GET /v1/authors/{id}/books (indexed work_contributors, not a name scan).

Get by id

You have an fds_au_… id from GET /v1/authors/search or from contributors[].id on a book. authors is still the display-name array.

Request

curl -sS -H "Authorization: Bearer $FDS_API_KEY" \
  https://api.fulldatasets.com/v1/authors/fds_au_37316331633930383534

Path	Required	Notes
id	yes	Contributor id (fds_au_…)

Response `200`

{
  "id": "fds_au_37316331633930383534",
  "name": "Andy Weir",
  "sort_name": "Weir, Andy",
  "release": "2026-09.2"
}

• 301 — merged contributor; follow Location
• 404 — unknown id

Cached 24h after auth.

Books by author

curl -sS -H "Authorization: Bearer $FDS_API_KEY" \
  "https://api.fulldatasets.com/v1/authors/fds_au_37316331633930383534/books"

One primary English edition per work, from work_contributors.contributor_id. Do not search_books an author name.

See also

• Data model
• Search — title browse; books-by-author is GET /v1/authors/{id}/books
• Match — title + optional author