API reference

Authors

GET /v1/authors/search

Search by name or get a contributor by fds_au_ id.

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. This is the path for “books by …” when you do not have a title.

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.

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_…`)

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

Cached 24h after auth.