Catalogue · Books and authors

Up-to-date data, one provider.

Canonical books, authors, and identifiers for engineers and founders who would rather ship product than maintain scrapers.

Datasets

What you can pull today

Books and authors, same IDs across REST, MCP, and bulk.

Books Live

Editions, works, contributors

ISBN lookup, search, stable IDs, redirects, and a changelog you can sync.

Browse the shelf →

Authors Live

Contributor graph

Names, Open Library keys, and the works attached to them.

Browse authors →

Surfaces

One key, several ways in

Inspired by how modern data APIs ship: same credentials across REST, agents, and bulk.

RESTReady

HTTP API

Point lookups, search, match, and release manifests under /v1.

api.fulldatasets.com →

MCPReady

Cursor / agents

Tools for ISBN lookup, resolve, search, and work/edition gets — same API key.

mcp.fulldatasets.com →

BulkReady

Parquet releases

Versioned dumps for warehouses and offline pipelines.

Latest release →

Use cases

Where this lands in your stack

Product catalogs

Enrich listings with canonical titles, ISBNs, and author names that stay stable.

Search & recommend

Seed retrieval indexes without rebuilding Open Library joins yourself.

Agent tools

Give coding agents a typed MCP surface instead of brittle scrape scripts.

Change sync

Follow the changelog cursor so your cache tracks the release stream.

Books snapshot

From the current lakehouse normalize

Release 2026-09.2 · Open Library · served from Postgres.

119.8M

Editions

78.2M

Works

19.2M

Contributors